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Enough of So!!!

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OK, I can’t take it anymore, if someone starts their next sentence to me with, “So…”, I’m going to spontaneously combust! Who’s with me? Who has noticed the latest language fad of starting a response to someone's question with, “So…”? I hereby throw down the challenge, try and start your next response with a word other than “So”, maybe, “Yeah…”, or, “Right…”, or “I thee think thout…”, whatever!! Just something other than “So…”!!!!!

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  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2006
    That's funny -- it was only a few blog entries back that YOU began YOUR sentence with "SO"

    http://blogs.msdn.com/davidlem/archive/2006/07/17/667813.aspx

    So -- what do you have to say now? ha ha
  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2006
    So true!


    ;)
  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2006
    Doh! I know, I was victim to the so! But I'm trying to change, honest!
  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2006
    Apparently it is not that new - Michael Lewis documented it in "the new new thing" circa 2001 http://jcooney.net/archive/2005/03/29/493.aspx I guess in the history of the english language 2001 might count as "recent".
  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2006
    Just go listen to every ".NET Show" ever recorded. It's gotta be a Microsoft thing.
  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2006
    So what's wrong with that?

    ;)
  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2006
    It used to be "Like" and before that, "I mean", and "You know."

    I recall a Microsoft telecast several years ago when the theatre audience started laughing, calling out, and applauding every time a participant on the screen used "Absolutely" in an answer.

    There are many other throwaway/nonsense words and phrases in current use. Watch any Microsoft presentation and count the number of times the presenter says, "I'll go ahead and..."

    These are linguistic trends we're "super-excited" about and that we'll watch "going forward". (Two MS biggies!)

    Ken

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2006
    Ahh yes, but David, how many times to you say "Right" at the end of sentences in your presentations?

    We are all guilty of some annoying speaking habits!

    The other one that annoys me is everyone saying "essentially ...". Of course it's an essential fact, why else would they be saying it?
  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2006
    So (there’s that word again!) most of us are pretty convinced that Team Foundation Server...
  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2006
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    July 17, 2006
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