Starting sentences with "So..."

First Up

There has always been pretentious twats (and twatettes) who do this but there seems to be an epidemic of it at the moment. Half (or more) of those interviewed on Morning Ireland or similar programmes are at it. It's as infectious as Covid 19 and the only vaccine is to laugh at them until they stop.

mistress_gi

So I do this all the time!!!

crossman47

First Up wrote: »

There has always been pretentious twats (and twatettes) who do this but there seems to be an epidemic of it at the moment. Half (or more) of those interviewed on Morning Ireland or similar programmes are at it. It's as infectious as Covid 19 and the only vaccine is to laugh at them until they stop.

A few years ago they were "going forward" all the time

EmmetSpiceland

So then I says to Mabel, I says

Cee-Jay-Cee

Ever since the DoH and Dr Holohan (who starts all
his sentences with ‘so’ ) started doing their daily briefings I have noticed a massive increase in this way of starting a sentence (after being asked a question) and I firmly believe Holohan is to blame for the majority of it.

SEPT 23 1989

This "takeaway" bullsh1t is starting to annoy me

First Up

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote:

Ever since the DoH and Dr Holohan (who starts all his sentences with ‘so’ ) started doing their daily briefings I have noticed a massive increase in this way of starting a sentence (after being asked a question) and I firmly believe Holohan is to blame for the majority of it.

Yes a rampant epidemic.

First Up

mistress_gi wrote:

So I do this all the time!!!

Consider yourself laughed at.

Mrs OBumble

It is indeed, so it is.

Or like if you're from Limerick.

Dunno what they cay in Cork, have never understood the accent well enough to tell

rdwight

I don't think the widespread use of "So" is really pretentious; "So" has just come to replace "Well" over the last couple of years. I found it irritating at first but I suppose we have to accept the evolution of the vernacular. Having said that, I'll never accept the increasingly used "I seen" as anything other than an abomination.

mikemac2

ya know at the end of every sentence

Much beloved of every post match interview of a Tipperary GAA player ya know

pappyodaniel

mikemac2 wrote: »

ya know at the end of every sentence

Much beloved of every post match interview of a Tipperary GAA player ya know

And the sentence usually starts with "Sure lookit..."

Pinch Flat

I'm going to circle back on this thread later and see how it develops.

Truthvader

so?

LeYouth

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

This "takeaway" bullsh1t is starting to annoy me

So the takeaway from this thread is...? Surely there's a few action points from all of this.

Wabbit Ears

yeaaaaaaaa, soooo ehhhhh feck off an stop policing other peoples way of speaking ya lockdown addled gobsheen.

Capt'n Midnight

Do a deer, a female deer
Re, a drop of golden sun
Mi, a name I call myself
Fa, a long, long way to run
So, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow So

Never mind So.

The only thing they could say about La was it follows So . That's just BS :mad:

Kylta

So what

Quantum Erasure

So, I was actually looking this up the other day...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_(sentence_opener)

Various suggestions have been made as to its purpose:

• as a coordinating conjunctive to refer backwards to something previously mentioned
• as a discourse marker
• to signal that the following words are chosen for their relevance to the listener
• to provide a small amount of extra thinking time

In his Modern English translation of Beowulf, Irish poet Seamus Heaney uses "So." to translate the single-word opening line, Hwæt! (also rendered 'lo', 'hark', 'listen', etc). He explains that "in Hiberno-English Scullion-speak [...] 'so' operates as an expression that obliterates all previous discourse and narrative, and at the same time functions as an exclamation calling for immediate attention. So, 'so' it was"

so it goes