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  • 03-07-2014 9:11pm
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    Billy Suffolk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16 ✭


    What's this new trend of answering questions with. "So..."

    As in .

    "What are the plans for your company ?"

    "So we plan to expand and....."

    What's all this about and where did it spring up from.

    Viral on all the Talk radio stations .

    ?


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    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,882 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Billy Suffolk wrote: »
    What's this new trend of answering questions with. "So..."

    As in .

    "What are the plans for your company ?"

    "So we plan to expand and....."

    What's all this about and where did it spring up from.

    Viral on all the Talk radio station .

    ?

    So, it came from a tendency towards excessive explanatory condescension, a tendency to explain things you understood the first time in a different form and eventually that "so" clarification made its way into the first explanation. So basically it comes from condescending people over explaining things to people who already understand it.


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    Billy Suffolk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16 ✭Billy Suffolk


    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    So, it came from a tendency towards excessive explanatory condescension, a tendency to explain things you understood the first time in a different form and eventually that "so" clarification made its way into the first explanation. So basically it comes from condescending people over explaining things to people who already understand it.

    Oooooo. Kay...I kind of get you, but why has it jumped up in the last year?

    Its being used to answer questions, not in the traditional sense to give a reason for an act.

    "I closed the windows,so wouldn't be in a draught"

    Now it's " So I went out last night and met this ....."

    No need for the 'so'

    Where did this crud spring from.?


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    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,882 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    Billy Suffolk wrote: »
    Oooooo. Kay...I kind of get you, but why has it jumped up in the last year?

    Its being used to answer questions, not in the traditional sense to give a reason for an act.

    "I closed the windows,so wouldn't be in a draught"

    Now it's " So I went out last night and met this ....."

    No need for the 'so'

    Where did this crud spring from.?

    I was just giving a joke answer. Americans have been doing it for years, I guess that's where it's from. Why is always tricky with language. It just happens, and usually annoys people used to how things were before the change.


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    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Well, WE don't use it in our house.

    I have a tendency to put 'eh' on the end of a sentence, but that's just me, eh?

    tac


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    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    tac foley wrote: »
    ...
    I have a tendency to put 'eh' on the end of a sentence, but that's just me, eh?...
    You and most Canadians.


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    Wilberto
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    tac foley wrote: »
    I have a tendency to put 'eh' on the end of a sentence, but that's just me, eh?

    fonzie-736286.jpg

    :D:D:P


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    Alun
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    tac foley wrote: »
    Well, WE don't use it in our house.

    I have a tendency to put 'eh' on the end of a sentence, but that's just me, eh?
    ... and "Well, ..." at the start. Same thing, really.


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    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    So has been common in Hiberno English for decades. It seems to have moved from there to Silicon Valley and as usual the kind of people who dislike new language usage they are told to dislike dislike it. Even when it's not in fact new.


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    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Alun wrote: »
    ... and "Well, ..." at the start. Same thing, really.


    You bin keeping track of my posts then, eh?

    You one of them internet stalkers?

    tac


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    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    tac foley wrote: »
    You bin keeping track of my posts then, eh?

    You one of them internet stalkers?

    tac

    Maybe he quoted a post where you put Well at the start.


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    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Hmmm, could be, eh?

    You realise, of course, that in this instance I am writing in a form of recorded narrative - I do not actually write 'eh' on the end of each sentence. I hope that is understood. ;)

    tac


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    Yakuza
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    Grace Park's character on Hawaii Five-0 uses it all the time..."So I <insert technobabble here>" as she deftly manipulates the huge Microsoft surface table which involves some hollywood-esque image manipulation or solving problems that normally need a supercomputer to crack (instead of the glorified laptop with a huge touch screen that it is). I'm not sure which annoys me more; the over-use of "So" or the unrealistic computing used to move the plot along.


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