"So"

[Ether]

I see an increasing number of students starting their posts with the word "So", as in "So our team decided to ...".

Is this a new fad? In what part of the country did it originate? And, is there any chance it might overtake the (mis)use of the word "like" ?

These questions haunt me.

[Nate Laverdure]

It is a fad!

Very observant of you. I didn't notice the trend until I read this article (which I was brought to by this Boing Boing post) by Anand Giridharadas of the New York Times a while back.

[Taylor]

I'm willing to accept using the word "so" to start sentences. However, I will not abide by people who end their sentence with that word.

[MrForbes]

It's not just students, lots of older folks do it to.

I notice that I do it sometimes.

[wilsonmw04]

So, yeah. Like, this is how kids talk now days...

Can you get hip to the new scene, Daddo?



All joking aside, give it 6-12 months and it will go away.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

All joking aside, give it 6-12 months and it will go away.

So, I'm like, like "like" went away after 6-12 months?

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by Ether

So, I'm like, like "like" went away after 6-12 months?

fair enough, but I think fads come and go faster now days.

[Foster]

Originally Posted by Ether

So, I'm like, like "like" went away after 6-12 months?

So, I do this when I talk. Most of the time when I write I clean it up.

And the other problem I have is starting sentences with and.

I think most of the time my inner voice is dictating and I'm just typing away. I'm happy when the other inner voice gets the spelling correct.

Thanks for the reminder, I do know better

[Ether]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

give it 6-12 months and it will go away.

Not.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...78&postcount=1

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[Lil' Lavery]

"So" what?

[thursam]

I do this sometimes when talking as well, but not when writing - which I find mildly strange. I don't do it often, so that's good, but I wish I didn't do it at all. It's like using "like" and "yeah" when describing something.
The main cause is probably my environment/peers. Public high schools (or my high school, at least) tends to lack in terms of grammar and relies more on colloquial slang.

[gpetilli]

This was the very next thread I read after "So"....

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=125333

big chuckle

[Ether]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04 three years ago...

give it 6-12 months and it will go away.

Originally Posted by Ether one year ago...

Not.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...78&postcount=1...

Still no sign of slowing down...

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[g_sawchuk]

So, like I really like don't know like what you're saying, like we never like use weird words as trends, so yeah....

[Tytus Gerrish]

resurrected! who cares?