Starting spoken sentences with 'so'

bobbyy gee

so lo

Brendan Flowers

genius200iq wrote: »

All the rage in Dalkey and Foxrock, if you don't know and use it you must be a pleb

That's quite an imagination you have.

MonkstownHoop

Ah leave them alone, they're probably Happy Out

IamtheWalrus

Oh my days

Church on Tuesday

So there's this new thing creeping into the online lexicon of starting sentences with "I mean", it's highly irritating and seems to be mostly the preserve of yanks on reddit.

vektarman

So....going forward I'm super excited and happy out that we'll be touching base.

So, yeah I have noticed it and I disapprove.

trashcan

Ah, so.

patob

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Yer man Dr Houlihan started the trend here at the beginning of lockdown with his daily briefings and it seems to have caught on. Doesn’t bother me.

Yep, I called him Dr So when he came on with his daily updates. Dr De Gascun and most other Irish medics in the media use this same American corporate dross. Gets on my goat a bit.

guitarhappy

They can say whatever stupid things they want, just not in croaky voice. I can't stand the sound of a woman talking croaky voice.

feargale

markest wrote: »

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

It's Hiberno-English for therefore.

feargale

suicide_circus wrote: »

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.

Down with condescension and all that sort of thing.

the purple tin

There is always the brief pause after the So...
I recommend people use that pause to turn on their heel and walk off before the waffle can commence

byte

I find people who start sentences with "I mean..." more irritating.

"I mean... he's not wrong" :mad:

I can understand it if somebody says it to further explain something they've just said. But it seems to be used by some as a starting sentence or to answer somebody else.

Brendan Flowers

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

So there's this new thing creeping into the online lexicon of starting sentences with "I mean", it's highly irritating and seems to be mostly the preserve of yanks on reddit.

You mean like this?

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

The outside is a cats natural habitat. I mean they are predators, it's literally what they are designed to do, to roam free within reason and hunt.

And no, no I don't want a cat doing it's business inside my place, it's simply not hygienic.

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

When will it end though? I mean, it can't go on forever and many notable and popular characters have been retired.

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."

Basically this.

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Is tipping Taxi drivers really a thing?

I mean, I'm not tight or anything, but they are expensive enough as is...

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

I honestly don't know why any gender would be posing with kids TBH. Very odd.

I mean, it's a dating site. Keep it to pics of you, your friends or adult siblings.

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

I mean, to each their own and all that, but I just can't find female politicians attractive...

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Nah hair transplants still look dodge as fook.

I mean, Wayne Rooney.

Bald dude here. Embrace the baldness lads and for God sake don't attempt a comb over or wig or grow whats left out :eek:

Tony EH

suicide_circus wrote: »

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.

Nothing new about it. I've been hearing people start their sentences with "So..." for years.

"So...are we going to go to the bleedin boozer or what?"

Tony EH

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

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.

It is and it isn't.

Starting a statement with "So" is very American. "So, I was walking into town yesterday..." But a question, rhetorical or otherwise has been part of the Irish tounge for donkey's years. "So, did ya get off with yer wan last night, or wha?"

Seamai

I phoned a company recently and got their answering service. The greeting started, "So, you have reached......" Grrrrrr

Church on Tuesday

Brendan Flowers wrote: »

You mean like this?

**** me that's highly creepy you'd go back to all that trouble to make what point exactly?

My point was that there is a tendency for folk to start every single sentence using that term; the term in and of itself is fine.

Christ this place sometimes. Unbelievable.

Kaybaykwah

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

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.

Ah yes! But that coming from Chaucer, that chancer.

Loafing Oaf

suicide_circus wrote: »

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.

A lot of the currently ubiquitous medical experts seem to use it a lot, I'm thinking Cillian De Gascun in particular. It seems to signify that the speaker is not going to immediately provide a direct answer to the question asked but intends to sketch a broader picture. Doesn't bother me if what they are saying is actually informative.