"People" who kick off with the word 'So'!

[NormanD]

It's "Obviously" that's obviously is obvious in many an interview ..well obviously of course

 

[RedRider]

Seamus Heaney starts his Beowulf with it. He explains:

'Conventional renderings of hwæt, the first word of the poem, tend towards the archaic literary, with ‘lo’, ‘hark’, ‘behold’, ‘attend’ and – more colloquially – ‘listen’ being some of the solutions offered previously. But in Hiberno-English Scullion-speak, the particle ‘so’ came naturally to the rescue, because in that idiom ‘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. The Spear-Danes in days gone by
and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.
We have heard of those princes’ heroic campaigns." '

 

[Archie_tect]

Nowt wrong with that or to use the word as part of a two-word answer such as 'So what?' It's when they begin with it implying they are talking down to the other person that particularly annoys me. Like they're saying, 'this is the definitive answer to your question/the debate at hand so look no further' which is so nauseating.

So, that's that then....

 

[numbnuts]

So there I was......

 

[oldfatfool]

So so(mething) gets on your tits, woopy diddly doo

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Seamus Heaney discusses his translation of Beowulf:

Conventional renderings of hwæt, the first word of the poem, tend towards the archaic literary, with ‘lo’, ‘hark’, ‘behold’, ‘attend’ and – more colloquially – ‘listen’ being some of the solutions offered previously. But in Hiberno-English Scullion-speak, the particle ‘so’ came naturally to the rescue, because in that idiom ‘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. The Spear-Danes in days gone byand the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.We have heard of those princes’ heroic campaigns.​

Seamus Heaney starts his Beowulf with it. He explains:

'Conventional renderings of hwæt, the first word of the poem, tend towards the archaic literary, with ‘lo’, ‘hark’, ‘behold’, ‘attend’ and – more colloquially – ‘listen’ being some of the solutions offered previously. But in Hiberno-English Scullion-speak, the particle ‘so’ came naturally to the rescue, because in that idiom ‘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. The Spear-Danes in days gone by
and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.
We have heard of those princes’ heroic campaigns." '

So, TMN to winjim, probably a double pointer as its quite an extensive one.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

[QUOTE 3038755, member: 1314"]There should be an exclamation after Heaney's 'So'.

So 'So' should be 'So!'[/QUOTE]
If you say so.

 

[RedRider]

So, TMN to winjim, probably a double pointer as its quite an extensive one.

For fark's sake. I'm off!

 

[NormanD]

Don't you just love the ribbing on this forum

 

[Deleted member 23692]

I blame Jean Luc Picard

 

[ColinJ]

So, not a tasty change from so so soup!

 

[winjim]

For ****'s sake. I'm off!

I'm a cut and paste ninja

 

[Accy cyclist]

Starting a sentence with SO isn't half as bad as ending one with YEAH! "Is that all or do you want anything else yeah?"often used by shop assistants etc. On a slightly different note what about when news reporters on the tv and radio use the word ADMITS incorrectly! "He admitted that he was satisfied with the outcome" for example. They often substitute SAID with ADMITTED,why does this go unchallenged?

 

[JtB]

For those who find the first word of a sentence so offensive, maybe a little "Anger Management" therapy is called for.

 

[sazzaa]

[QUOTE 3038741, member: 1314"]There's a colleague at work who uses 'So' to start almost every sentence. He's on the autism scale, I'd say - not really aware of how he's seen by others, very ocd, obsessed with figures. Not very good at concepts, lateral thinking, imagination. Very good at his job - he's been here for over a decade - as he works on figures and systems, where detail to the tiniest detail is essential.

Very logical - and in email comms he'll start nearly every sentence with 'So' - it's a way of him connecting the thought in one sentence to the one before. For example:

'The funding for schools will decline in 2015. So we need to raise the fee per pupil. So we need to let the schools know by October 2014.'

He'll carry on like that for 15 or 20 sentences but it's how his mind works. So we're all more than happy with him.[/QUOTE]

Asperger's. Except it's most likely not OCD you're seeing, it's just an Asperger's person carrying out routine actions, not really the same thing but often confused. Everything else fits.