[Closed] Starting every sentence with "so"

So. What the hell is an "up-sentence"?

so, what's the problem?

So, haven't we done this before, yeah?

So what

**** me, the first 3 posts start as unoriginally as conceivably possible 😐

EDIT 4 you can always rely on Drew 😛

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So many problems and so little time.
This is good, yes?

So, here's the thing. Right?

Enjoy.

So is that best you can come up with?

So what's up?

Oh ****. What have I done?

So. What the hell is an "up-sentence"?

Where every sentence ends as if it were a question?

OP, thank you. I agree. I blame Peter Gabriel.

🙂

to be fair, there are worse...

At the end of the day, I have to admit that I do it sometimes. I try to make the rest of the sentence that follows less annoying though...

So, what do you think?

If your organisation sends you on media training courses one of the things they tell you to do when being interviewed is to pause after a question is asked...just for a brief second...to gather your thoughts before answering the question, many people at this point would say automatically "umm" or similar. That can sound ignorant or as if the person answering the question is being hesitant or evasive, so the media training suggests using a small neutral word usually "so" sometimes "well" or even "I'm glad you asked me that" as a neutral interjection to use while you are thinking. "So" has become the in vogue word in recemt years. If you hear a person starting an answer with "so" then they've done some media training, or acquired the habit by listening to other people that have done the training.

Like, wevs, innit.

Not Peter Gabriel , phil Collins ....so so sudio?
Igmc...?

Where every sentence ends as if it were a question?

That pisses me off as well. Even worse when an answer sounds like a question.

Q, 'where are you working nowadays'?
A, 'I'm an MP'?

Grrr...

Well, I've done it for years. Didn't know it was a thing.
It's better than nothingk.

Not Peter Gabriel , phil Collins ....so so sudio?
Igmc...?

gwaelod - this may have been the case at work today, but all the kidz around here do it. And don't start me off on the fake Jamaican accent thing.

So I guess the op is never going to Ireland. It's used to start a sentence as much as **** is used as a punctuation mark.

blame the NZers for the rising intonation at the end of a sentence. Specifically Ritchie McCaw who deliberately engineered it a technique to turn the statement "I was Offside at the ruck ref" into a question to deliberately sow doubt into officials minds ultimately letting him get away with murder at virtually every breakdown thereafter

the 'so' think dont upset me pacifically

the up-sentence, thats just Ozzy, innit?

however if a particular person uses the mashed phrase "smoke and dagger" in my presence, i will serve time

the up-sentence, thats just Ozzy, innit?

Well, look, I mean, y'know...

So I guess the op is never going to Ireland. It's used to start a sentence as much as **** is used as a punctuation mark.

"So long as there are men there will be wars"
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So I guess the op is never going to Ireland. It's used to start a sentence as much as **** is used as a punctuation mark.

So it is.

Ah, a friend of mine is Irish and he uses so at the end of nearly every sentence, so. Foe some reason, I don't mind that.

Well, I've done it for years.

So have I - (oh god it happened again)

I'm trying to wean myself off it by substituting the word 'So' for 'Yeah, well, whatever, enough about you, my turn to talk now'

So essentially your just a bit pee'd off?
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/starting-every-sentence-with-essentially

. If you hear a person starting an answer with "so" then they've done some media training, or acquired

Bollocks.

ooh...he said "bollocks"
so he did?
bollocks he did, it was in [i]said[/i] post

So I did, it was because language adapts all the time. It has nothing to do with going on a management course.

You just need to add some vocal fry to the upward inflection when speaking.. Ooh and compact words... Totes, obvs etc

It's a German / Austrian thing, so ....

I noticed the 'so' phenomenon being heavily used during the questioning of the last batch of Apprentice candidates. I suspected it was being used as a tool to allow a little more thinking time (as suggested up there ^).
Also, if you're going to link to a 'So What?' song on Youtube, you should link to the best one. By Crass 🙂

phil Collins ....so so sudio?

Well it made me laugh.

😆

[I]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.

There was Shield Sheafson, scourge of many tribes,

A wrecker of mead-benches, rampaging among foes.

This terror of the hall-troops had come far.

A foundling to start with, he would flourish later on

As his powers waxed and his worth was proved.

In the end each clan on the outlying coasts

Beyond the whale-road had to yield to him

And begin to pay tribute. That was one good king.[/I]

So long and thanks for all the fish!

It's something I absolutely detest. It's often not used to "buy time" as frequently, the person doing it isn't replying. Think it's some weird affected behaviour - having spent a few years in a digital startup, seems particularly common in those semi-hipster millenials, complete with the fake almost-RP accent that gets stronger the longer they're working in that sector.

'Up-sentence' is more annoying to me than 'so'. It's called rising intonation.

I've always called it "AQI", see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal

My boss does it, but more specifically he always shouts it... SO!, he can be in his office talking to someone on the phone, SO!, you'll never heard anything from him except every few minutes a SO! basically shakes the windows.

Current manager starts 60% of statements with "For me, .."

Also includes the words "kind of" (which then undermines what she is saying) interspersed within most sentences, using it multiple times quite happily.

Combination makes up most of her side of any interaction, drives me bloomin nuts! 👿

So?

blame the NZers for the rising intonation at the end of a sentence.

I blame Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Sounds like every (mostly)articulate and intelligent interviewee on R4 begins every sentence with that word. Usually immediately after the question so not 'thinking time'. In fact the higher up the clever tree the more sos you get...

'Like'
'It's kinda'
'Basically' are my pet hates
'So basically its kinda like....' would have me turning around and walking away.

You didn't when I met you Bunnyhop 🙂

gwaelod - Member

If your organisation sends you on media training courses one of the things they tell you to do when being interviewed is to pause after a question is asked..................... If you hear a person starting an answer with "so" then they've done some media training, or acquired the habit by listening to other people that have done the training.

Welsh rugby players or commentators all seem to answer questions with "Look......" and I assume it's for the same reason, but it sounds very patronising to me. It's the wrong word.

I blame Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

... A needle pulling thread

Tra-laaaa.

having spent a few years in a digital startup, seems particularly common in those semi-hipster millenials, complete with the fake almost-RP accent that gets stronger the longer they're working in that sector.

Yes, I'm in digital and have been for years - it seems these days that the longer the beard and the more fake the glasses, the more "so" is used. Sweeping generalisation, but I'm sticking with it. I think it was the combination of all three that nearly sent me postal.
What is an RP accent?

Welsh rugby players or commentators all seem to answer questions with "Look......" and I assume it's for the same reason, but it sounds very patronising to me. It's the wrong word.

Welsh rugby players or commentators all seem to answer questions with "Look......" and I assume it's for the same reason, but it sounds very patronising to me. It's the wrong word.