So you know this latest trend of starting sentences with “So”

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So you know how people do this? So I find it really annoying. So stop.

😂

There was an annoying trend on Facebook a few years ago of starting all posts with “when”

”when your daughter wins star of the week”
”when your husband brings you flowers”
”when you forget to polish your diamond ring”

So I sorted it by muting everyone I know

Not as annoying as asking a question and adding a yes or no on the end eg "you have a dog yes?" WTF is that all about?

'So now so' at the end of a sentence is definitely an Irish thing that's been around for ever. My grandparents would have used it. And definitely 'well' at the start of a sentence, i think i do this too. Well, I had a great night, so now so. Means nothing just filler

Loathe it

I think that it was Gordon Ramsey who started the "yes?" thing - "Fuck me! This kitchen is an absolute fucking disgrace, yes?"

This is not new. I’ve actually noticed it has reduced (thank god!) so ssshhhhh, it will start again.

'I mean' at the start of a sentence is also becoming common where I am. Mind you where I live, 'so it is' is common at the end of a sentence 😂

‘Kinda’ Aaaagggghhhhh!🙄

”I kinda feel like I’d like Chinese food.” = I’d like some Chinese food.

I noticed a while ago that I was starting almost every sentence with the word well, no idea why. Well, after having a word with myself I stopped doing it completely, so.

'Tryna' 😡

It’s not ‘over-use’, though. It’s a standard aspect of Hiberno-English, to the extent that Seamus Heaney begins his translation of Beowulf with ‘So’ translating ‘Hwaet’. Published in 1999.

I think that using 'So' to introduce an anecdote or begin a story has been around for ever in UK English, too. It is only the more ponderous, academic-style usage that is relatively newly popular.

Think of a stand-ip comedian beiginning a speil: 'So, I was on my way to the theatre tonight and this bloke ... ya-da-yada ...". We are all v familiar with that I think, and it feels kind of neutral, not annoying.

I got 'feedback' for doing this at work over 20 years ago! Glad I am now fashionable for once in my life.

"So, I was on my way to the theatre tonight and this bloke ... ya-da-yada ..."

I shouldn't have put a comma after 'so' in that sentence. It is only the more recent academic-style usage that has that short pause, not the long-standing anecdote-related usage.
It is that short pause that makes the more recently popular usage so annoying. Like the speaker is waiting for us all to settle down and put on our listening faces. grr!

I dislike the 'so' habit and have told DH off for doing it - he's 62 not some youth!

I also dislike the "now look" brigade - mostly Tory MPs when being challenged by a TV journalist.

So... it's been happening for years.

The phrase I dislike is 'can I grab' eg, can I grab that book from you when I come round later'.
It sounds so violent to me 😅

So, like yeh, you know when some one makes a good point, yeh? And, like, the response is "yeh, yeh, yeh"?
So, yeh, like it is really annoying, but so, like, yeh, it's just actually a filled pause. (And don't forget the rising inflection at the end of the sentence, to turn a statement into a question)!

So, yeah no yeah I guess it’s annoying but I mean does it matter?
’look’ from politicians feels very different though, like ‘see things my way’

My dad complained about DH doing this from the first time he met him. Also complained about hearing it all over the radio, how awful it was etc.

We've been together 21 years.

Don't think it's new!

Yeah as others have said, don't move to Ireland so.

I play solitaire on my phone and there an advert for Royal Match which pops up frequently
‘So, the makers of Royal Match have… blah blah’. Drives me insane. Even when I press the mute button I can see her mouthing the words.

*There’s

I teach secondary English. I hate pupils answering questions with "So, basically, yeah..." No good answer has ever followed!