I'm getting flamed for this but people who....

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Start every frigging statement or paragraph with the word 'so' as in 'so I was doing my shopping and I stubbed my toe blah blah'.

No. Just no.

Aibu or am I the only person who gets peeved reading posts and statuses like this? It doesn't isn't sound nice reading it out in my head. Do people talk like this in real life?

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My SIl has an insanely annoying habit of adding, 'aren't we?' to every statement she makes as if everyone in the world is privy to her every movement.

'Hi SIL, what are you up to this weekend?'

'DH and I are going to the pencil museum in Godalming, aren't we?'

Drives me fucking mad.

It annoys me too. I just don't understand it.

I hate it with a passion. My neighbour posts on holiday and always writes something like this-
... so today we plan to take in the sites of the old town, followed by a leisurely lunch at an old favourite( you know the one Mandy G) and back to base for the week at our beautiful villa. Insert picture of a table with a travel book, glass of wine and view of a church steeple. She thinks she's a Bostonian travel writer!

MN will burst into flames about 'innit', 'I turned round' and 'like' but don't you dare criticise 'so'.

Because its a middle class affectation, not a chavvy one.

Educated people say it.

So it doesn't matter how bloody irritating it is (and it IS).

If this has been done to death my apologies, I don't come on here often. It must just be an annoying thing to some people.

I hate it when people secribe past events in the present tense . . . this is often combined with other linguistic horrors . . .

So then I'm "What?" and she'S "You heard" and then I'm "Say that again" and she's "What's your problem?" and I'm etc etc etc

It makes my teeth curl!

My local authority employs a freelance trainer.
The end every other sentence with 'does that make sense?'

What the trainer really means is 'I am a fecking amazing communicator so OF COURSE that makes sense. If you don't understand that you are an idiot'

I had to stop going to the seminars. I couldn't concentrate because I was anticipating that 'does that make sense? the whole time.

Educated people ought to know better

So, I agree with you that it has become a fad which seems to have come form psychologists and other explaining experts on TV , at least that's where I first noticed it as an explaining connective.

What I really hate with a passion OP ,though, is 'frigging'. Sorry

Innit doesn't bother me. I can see it's wrong and I wouldn't say it or type it but it doesn't make me angry in the way so... does.

Hmm. I think 'so' used initially is precisely the same as 'hwaet' used initially in Beowulf. So, you're welcome to dislike it but you're disliking a type of construction that goes way back.

I don't think it has anything whatsoever to do with correct or incorrect English.

Do you mean it's just like erm
can we all go back to erm please. If yiu need lessons in its use my dad is an expert.

That bloody stupid smurf down there is annoying me more than anything else right now.

For me it's people who can't say "he said" or "she said" but have to say "he turned round and said" "then she turned round and said" as though both people in the conversation were constantly spinning
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This

Along with "and you just think" in the middle of a sentence. No I don't.

Ah the use of frigging. I find it just as good as a release as 'fuck' but sounds less aggressive.... I know what I mean.

YANBU. This was another thread on this recently. Chuck a 'gotten' in there as well, and I stop reading.

'So I've just just gotten this new...'

OP, the worst one is ... Basically ... the beginning of every sentence, just why ? 🤔🙄

No one uses "said" any more surely?
And he was like "did you see that? " and I was like "yeeeeah"

I'll admit...I'm guilty of this if it helps I don't realise I'm doing it and feel like stamping on my own foot as soon as I do as it is very irritating!

'That moment when...' is worse

I hate it. Happens all the time in radio interviews.

Anchorperson: And now I'd like to introduce Pat Cox, Leader of the newly formed Muddy Party. Could you start by telling us the story behind the party's rather unusual name?

Pat Cox: So, it all started last year when Chris Pitt and I fell into the Thames after a boozy Christmas lunch...

I understand that its function in speech is to buy a bit of time at the start of answering a question, much like 'Well...'. but it still annoys me. I've grown up with 'Well' at the start of an utterance meaning nothing so I ignore it and wait for the sentence proper to get going. I haven't yet got used to 'So' doing the same job. I do a double take because there wasn't anything before it to lead me to expect 'So', unlike in the following:

Anchorperson: And now I'd like to introduce Pat Cox, Leader of the newly formed Muddy Party. Could you start by telling us the story behind the party's rather unusual name?

Pat Cox: Yes, with pleasure. Our plans for the new party were well advanced by the end of last year but we couldn't think of a good name, so when Chris Pitt and I fell into the Thames after a boozy Christmas lunch...

Not sure 'frigging in the rigging' was unaggressive!!

shudder.

To be fair (probably another one that winds people up), I hate freakin' and frickin' more.

Almost every time some expert is being interviewed on the radio they will begin their answer to questions with "So". It drives me up the wall. I can't understand why anyone does it.

I agree with you op absolutely hate it. I also cannot abide "hun". I have a friend irl and on facebook who uses it and I have to concentrate really hard not to say anything as she is a lovely person.

Yes but it wasn't fucking in the rigging. That sounds absolutely crass to me. And I'm fond of a good swear from time to time.