The Red Pill Affects Your Speech Patterns
I had joked about this at the PDC, and Benjamin points out the same. The use of the word “so“ at the beginning of sentences seems growingly pervasive within Microsoft. From the TechEd and PDC presenters to interactions with development teams and field employees, more and more employees seem to use the word “so“ as an unnatural beginning to a sentence. [Update: Bryant Likes pointed this out back in April as well!]
I caught myself doing it twice last night.
Think I am exaggerating? Here are the transcripts from the most recent episodes of MSDN TV.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/transcript.asp?url=/msdntv/episodes/en/20040506sqlserverlp/manifest.xml https://msdn.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/transcript.asp?url=/msdntv/episodes/en/20040415adonetpc/manifest.xml https://msdn.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/transcript.asp?url=/msdntv/episodes/en/20040429clrkc/manifest.xml https://msdn.microsoft.com/seminar/shared/asp/transcript.asp?url=/msdntv/episodes/en/20040422winfsmd/manifest.xml
Comments
- Anonymous
June 29, 2004
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June 29, 2004
Heh. I've noticed myself doing this and have deliberately tried to avoid doing it. - Anonymous
June 29, 2004
me too :( - Anonymous
June 29, 2004
I've always found this to be funny. I posted about this myself after watching some Channel 9 videos.
http://blogs.sqlxml.org/bryantlikes/archive/2004/04/16/529.aspx - Anonymous
June 29, 2004
Verbal tics: Kirk Allen attends a conference, and notices that many sentences seem to start with "So...." (One fun thing is to watch TV in a language you don't understand, so you don't get distracted by the plot and can... - Anonymous
June 29, 2004
So...I think I have it figured out.
http://www.cerkit.com/cerkitBlog/PermaLink,guid,fedfe5ba-cbf8-48b5-8011-0602900df7e4.aspx - Anonymous
June 30, 2004
<strong>So</strong>, what can Microsoft do about? :-) - Anonymous
June 30, 2004
So, John Dowdell adds his 2 cents - Anonymous
February 23, 2007
It's getting worse. I don't know who started it, but I am determined to end it. I seek to end the continued