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Starting spoken sentences with 'so'

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  • 30-08-2020 7:35am
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    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone else notice an increase in this? Hearing it a lot on radio, podcasts etc

    It seems to be the new trendy speech 'tick'...it's the new 'like'.

    It's usually in response to a question, the 'so' indicating to the listener that they are about to receive a condescending education on something.


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    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,058 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    So what...


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    circadian
    Registered Users Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭circadian


    So?


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    #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    A lot of people have just become a performance..

    What really wrecks my head is the emphatic hand movements..


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    #5
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    that's it, geddit outa yer system


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    #6
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Going forward, I'd wish people didn't use this.


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    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,107 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Here in Canuckistan, listening to radio, both Canadian and American, I noticed it about 3 years ago. I hadn't noticed it before that time and it sort of blossomed into current speech and found it odd. I also find it annoying.


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    #8
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Kaybaykwah wrote: »
    Here in Canuckistan, listening to radio, both Canadian and American, I noticed it about 3 years ago. I hadn't noticed it before that time and it sort of blossomed into current speech and found it odd. I also find it annoying.

    Interesting. I've only noticed it gaining traction on this side of the pond in the last year.


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    Bricriu
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭Bricriu


    You think initial 'So' is bad. What about the Mid-Atlantic Interrogative Intonation beloved of 'Irish' people:

    https://youtu.be/yDZYCagHeqQ


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    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,631 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    So what's your point?


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    whiskeyman
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    Em.


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    fyfe79
    Registered Users Posts: 4,163 ✭✭✭fyfe79


    Yeah, no. Have/haven't noticed it.


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    #13
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,947 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    The first recorded use of “so” as a sentence opener is in Chaucer's “Troilus and Criseyde”, published in the 1380s.

    Looking forward to the posts complaining about this “new trend” of using the word staycation in about 650 years time.


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    #14
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Em.

    Bu-temmmm...


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    markest
    Registered Users Posts: 263 ✭✭markest


    Can someone explain the "so" at the end of a sentence?
    Eg. I'm going to town, so.


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    #16
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    markest wrote: »
    Can someone explain the "so" at the end of a sentence?
    Eg. I'm going to town, so.

    ...so.

    I think that’s fairly self explanatory, is it not?


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    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    markest wrote: »
    Can someone explain the "so" at the end of a sentence?
    Eg. I'm going to town, so.

    It is a definite or indefinite article.


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    #18
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    So so has’nt logged in since 2014

    I trust he’s still so so.


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    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    It's as bad as "lookit".


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,908 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    So, a needle pulling thread
    La, a note to follow So

    That second line is the lamest ever, very much in the 'If you can't say something nice...'


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    Brendan Flowers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭Brendan Flowers


    So...
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So Dublin City Council has finally started to evict tenants who are in arrears and refuse to pay. OVER HALF of all their tenants are in arrears totalling €33m.
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    so I was at party last weekend...
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    so people with EU licenses (except uk) pay higher premiums.
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So i took the aircoach to dublin airport today
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So my neighbors are airbnbing out a spare room in the apartment next to us.
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    so India is gonna send a mission to Mars.
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So a woman was visiting her husband in Castlrea prison, due to what I imagine was a mix up in communication, proceeds to pull down her jeans and knickers while going through the metal detector.
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So a study from the University of Amsterdamdraws a link between constant praise and narcissism in children.
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So a study says 70%+ of voices on Irish radio are male and it is suggested that radio producers do not look at gender balance.
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So if I book a taxi to the office for 14:00 and i get caught finishing a piece of work and only jump into the taxi at 14:10, invariably the meter will have been running for 10 minutes.
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So it seems that Saturdays in July are the most dangerous time to go outside as your likelihood of falling over and suiting someone are much higher.
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So this new act comes into force today, we now all have a legal right to defend our homes against intruders. About time!
    suicide_circus wrote: »
    So the majority of street names on Google Maps are in Irish. Unfortunately I cant read Irish, making this once handy app pretty useless


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    #22
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,631 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    L0usy so-and-so :-(


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    moonage
    Registered Users Posts: 798 ✭✭✭moonage


    So many people today are critical of the way others speak.


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    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    markest wrote: »
    Can someone explain the "so" at the end of a sentence?
    Eg. I'm going to town, so.

    An abbreviated version of so I am, so it is.


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    #25
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So.


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    #26
    Archeron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,202 ✭✭✭Archeron


    A child's got more bones than a grown ups got. Dem bones dem bones need,
    Calcium.


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    #27
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    I'm sooooooooooo like ye know.


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    #28
    smellyoldboot
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    I do it a fair bit in work, usually cutting into someones convoluted bs excuse of why they didn't/couldn't follow simple procedures: "I was doing it it just like it said and...."
    "So, if you refer back to the documentation, work sample and previous instruction provided, there shouldn't be an issue".


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    Capt. Autumn
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Capt. Autumn


    smellyoldboot wrote: »
    I do it a fair bit in work, usually cutting into someones convoluted bs excuse of why they didn't/couldn't follow simple procedures: "I was doing it it just like it said and...."
    "So, if you refer back to the documentation, work sample and previous instruction provided, there shouldn't be an issue".

    Why not use, 'But' or 'You need to understand' to start the sentence here.
    Using 'so' to start a sentence makes you sound like a corporate dick-sucker and a bit of a twat


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    #30
    Capt. Autumn
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Capt. Autumn


    Starting sentences with 'So' is an Americanism brought here via the corporate companies. I have been hearing it since the late nineties. Usually used by those who have totally sold their soul to the corporate culture, go-getters, career climbers, a***lickers and other names for middle management.


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    #31
    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,479 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    If it's just the usual vacuous whinge or mental excretion of a Silicon Docklands Dub or wannabes down the country, then it's heinous. And they should be disappeared or dropped from helicopters like somewhere super focking grotty and deep like Dublin Bay ok?
    But if it's like setting the scene like an anally retentive Germanic Blofeld type before they elaborate on their mental machinations, well then it's just mega.

    Example:

    So. (Shortest position piece ever).

    I don't expect you to talk Mr Bond, I expect you to die!!

    Or some such bombastic technical treatise all heavily visualised prior to proceedings.


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