So...

[smurfchops]

So, has anyone noticed how trendy individuals are starting their sentences with .. ". So, ......" ?

[gness]

Nope.......parrot pie's much better...... ;-)

That's what Dave was going for, Margo.....but he he was auto corrected!!!

[murraymints]

quick Poncho ..hide !!! sshhhh !! he can hear you....

[FizzTheFish]

So, is there something wrong about this?

[andy-hughes]

I have (jokingly!) advised of my self-created 'So ...' rule - it applies when people preface their post with 'So ...' which guarantees that the remainder of the post will either have completely missed the point being made in the post to which the response is addressed, or, equally common, the response will say that it is answering a post, and then make a completely different point, underlining that the writer has failed to grasp the point being made.

This has not gone down well with some of the more curmudgeonly members of the AB - but that does nothing to dent its validity!

[RandyMarsh]

I don't think it is anything new.

[Tilly2]

Point taken, Andy. :-)

So be it.

[johnny37]

To get back to the thread. there are many things we say that have no apparent meaning on grammar. Language is always evolving. SO may have derived from the French 'Bien' at the start of a sentence (we used to speak french, believe it or not) . The one I cant stand is when intelligent people start a reply 'Yeah, no'.

[ummmm]

Oh no, I say yeah no all the time.