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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on August 02, 2009, 08:18:10 PM
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This isn't a DUmmie story thread, but I thought this article about the"bouncy word SO" was irrelevant to the DUmp.
San Francisco – So, how did an innocuous little word – so – come to be a scaffolding on which we hoist our conversations, and without which we can barely begin a sentence? How did it edge out all potential linguistic contenders and plunk itself at the forefront of our thoughts – sometimes prior to any evidence of thought?
I'm not referring to the version of so that is a logical enabler, the if/then sort of so: She came, so I went. This so is full of content, hinting at a cause and effect relationship between two parts of a sentence. Such a so is logical, legitimate, beyond reproach. So is the so that intensifies the word that follows: "That is so lame."
The so in question, the so that begins a sentence with no earthly reason to do so, is not a tool of enhancement or logic – it is the poster-child of illogic. This so is a pause, a ploy, a nonreferential reference at the beginning of a conversation. It is a transition from nowhere. "So how are you?" evokes a disclosure of no thing, "So I'm fine."
Somewhere, somehow, not so long ago, this so came to be a place-marker, a pretender, a vamp-'til-ready sort of miscreant. You know, like you know used to be? Or like like once was?
Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090731/cm_csm/yshaff31web)
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I'm pretty sure that The Projectionist International Union requires certain stories to start with "So."
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great find thundley :-)
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Funny stuff.
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This isn't a DUmmie story thread, but I thought this article about the"bouncy word SO" was irrelevant to the DUmp.
Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090731/cm_csm/yshaff31web)
As the proud discoverer of the Axiom of So, I wholeheartedly approve.