Starting a message/post/text/thread/email with the word so...

[PegsPigs]

It's becoming a real arrrgh thing for me! The number of posters who start their thread with 'So I've got...' or 'So my DH...' or whatever. I see it in MN, I see it on FB. It drives me nuts!

So (ha!) AIBU to get annoyed when I read threads starting with so?

Yes yabu.

I don't know if YABU or not, if you don't like it you don't like it. But I use so all the time at the beginning of a sentence in my normal speech, I usually throw a couple of you knows in as well. I tend to type as I speak especially on something as informal as MN or FB.

YANBU. What does it add putting "So" at the beginning other than four totally unnecessary key strokes?

YANBU. Is it a copycat thing? I don't use FB so don't see it anywhere else.

Yanbu. I've stopped reading the ones that start with "So..." because I know I won't be able to take in what they're about; I'll just be reflecting on how much I dislike the "so" at the start.

YADNBU. It grates on me as well. (Not that I'm a paragon of virtue where impeccable grammar is concerned)

Cynara that's how it's got with me! I can't read and remember because the 'so' is grating on me.

So so about so? So what. Am I a so and so as I use so sometimes? So what if I do, so there

So yeah, yabu

So...couldn't read it, wouldn't read it

Yanbu. It's annoying. And daft.

Oh YANBU at all! So glad you started this thread *PegsPigs because I thought it was just me! It really annoys me too. Hate it when they are interviewing on TV or radio and the interviewee says "So...I was blah blah ...."

This isn't the first thread saying this.

I think we all have personal 'no-no's' and if there's a thread containing one we often don't bother with it and move on.

So where is the problem?

So there I was minding my own language when...there I was minding my own language.

It's a regional thing. We are so over having a universal English.

So get over it. Ships sink at sea. They so do.

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Yadnbu, I hate this!

Yabu.

Nothing wrong with it.

So?

It really irritates me as well. So yanbu

I'm with you OP. It drives me batty when it's used to answer a question
How do you make that?
So the way I make this is....
Why?

It's an interesting trend.

My Dc do it at the beginning and the end of their sentences.

It's awful. The first I encountered it was Will.I.Am on The Voice. It's bloody irritating and unnecessary. DP was doing it - either he picked it up from colleagues or it was a thing in the city where he works. I had to pull him up on it as it was driving me crackers.

So, you're not keen on people starting sentences with "so"?

I'm so so about it.

So why do people do it then?
I think it originates in American TV, maybe something a Sex in the City character says when she talks to camera.
People do it at the start of a funny story they're telling on Facebook. It's like they think their life is a sequence of warm and witty happenings and at the point of saying 'so' we are welcomed in for a short while on the great ride that is the story of their life.

I work in a call centre and silently groan everytime someone calls in and starts their sentance with 'basically...'
Yanbu.

Yabu
It's a commonly used 'attention getter', especially in spoken English. Message boards texts etc mirror real speech a lot more than formal written speech.
It might annoy you but that's your issue, not the usage itself.