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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2014 18:40:23 GMT
A lot of people seem to be using this word at the beginning of a sentence or answer?
Is it correct?
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Post by redsaturday on Apr 10, 2014 18:42:36 GMT
So you don't know, is that what you're saying
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Post by mermaidsal on Apr 10, 2014 18:47:35 GMT
So you don't know, is that what you're saying So you don't know, so she doesn't know so the both of you don't know? So you want a medal or what? It's wrong. It's plummeting out of fashion. So I still use it too often tho....  |
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Apr 10, 2014 18:54:23 GMT
So like totally whatever.
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Post by craig67 on Apr 10, 2014 19:27:41 GMT
So is it because you don't like the word?
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Post by swampySCFC on Apr 10, 2014 19:28:42 GMT
Never mind so its "What it is" that pisses me off
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2014 20:07:21 GMT
If it's good enough for Jim McDonald it's good enough for me..... So it is  |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Apr 10, 2014 20:45:19 GMT
So, a needle pulling thread then.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2014 21:19:25 GMT
So fecking what?
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Post by PotterLog on Apr 10, 2014 21:22:34 GMT
Never mind so its "What it is" that pisses me off Or the Stokie version "all's eet is is..." |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 8:18:36 GMT
I don't think SO
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 8:26:06 GMT
So what you will reap...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 8:55:00 GMT
So no genuine answers then?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 13:08:42 GMT
yes, it is correct and there is nothing wrong with it at all. it is usually used as a way to show a conclusion and to link together any previous points that lead to this conclusion.
although most people are taught when they're young not to use words like "But", "And" and "So" to start sentences, that was more down to people wanting their students to come across well and using a co-ordinating conjunction to start a sentence has never exactly been the way that the old fashioned presenters on the Beeb would speak. there is also the fact that people may not know how to use co-ordinating conjunctions at the start of a sentence correctly so it was generally taught that they were simply words used to link together sentences or clauses and therefore would come in the middle of a sentence but it doesn't always have to be the case at all. it's similar to when i learnt German at GCSE and was told that the verb would always be the second idea in a clause.then, when i got to A-Level, i was told to ignore that as it isn't a hard and fast rule; it was simply a rule that they taught as it was all we needed at that point and at that level and anything further may unnecessarily confuse matters.
using the word "So" to start a sentence may not be acceptable to some stylistically but there is absolutely nothing that is grammatically incorrect about doing so.
it is feckin annoying though!
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Apr 15, 2014 23:51:07 GMT
A lot of people seem to be using this word at the beginning of a sentence or answer? Is it correct? So.... this is really starting to piss me off in a petty kind of way. This is my current linguistic bête noir... there are legitimite uses for the 'so' word... but it's regularly misused by faux intellectuals. I could smash the radio/telebox when it's used to kick off a sentence so often. TEST I agree.... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2014 2:39:50 GMT
So no genuine answers then? TEST Look, I'll have a go. So, is an Americanism. We've a mate who's been out there 8 or so years and you could read the gentle transformation in her linguistics with every passing Christmas card (which are little family stories, you know the type of thing). It appears to be a way of easing a reader into a long, one-sided read. Kind of like, "Are you sitting comfortably?". As though the writer/speaker is apologising for what is about to come. Sorry, this is going to be long and it will probably bore you, won't it? But it's just one of those things we have to do, please bare with me ... So; over here in Oz, "Look", is used in a similar way. But, unlike "so" - which appears to be used in writing as much as speech - I only ever hear, not see, "Look". Look also has a longer pause following it, compared to so. Possibly because look appears to be used to generate some thinking time, while so is an apology in advance? So, I think the best English equivalent to "Look" is "Errm" - I'm not sure there is an English equivalent to "so"? Look; personally I don't find these little ticks annoying; but I do find the fact that the use of them appears to be contagious, curious. And, unlike the word, "ace" or a bazillion others over the years, it appears to be the pattern of speech that is mimicked, not just the word. So, look; that's what I reckon |
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Post by Nick1984 on Apr 16, 2014 7:07:16 GMT
So what?
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Post by partickpotter on Apr 16, 2014 10:26:43 GMT
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