So. This is my answer

careful

Just wanted a little rant about the fairly recent phomenon of people, especially on tv preceding their answers to all questions with "So----".
I have noticed it amongst all sorts of people, business people etc but especially from people who are being interviewed for their expertise in some subject. I hope it doesn't catch on - to me it just seems like a pointless affectation. Rant over.

daviesee

So last year.
:P

team47b

To use 'so' as a conjunction is only correct if it is followed by a defensive comment.

So, people who are being interviewed for their expertise that don't answer in a defensive way are not only annoying, but are also wrong, if you don't mind me saying

And using 'so' as an intensifying adverb and pronounced with exaggerated stress, is turning nouns into adjectives, and is also annoying and so affected

careful

So last year

That would explain why the head of Blackberry did it on tv this morning. He did it four times as he repeatedly ducked questions about what has gone wrong with Blackberry 10; that was also meant to be last year.

nevman

Buying time for the brain to engage.Usually condescending and infuriating when finished off with an upward inflection

ddraver

equivalent to the Aussie, "ahhhh look..."

See any Thopedo for example

ben@31

I have the annoying bad habbit of answering with "But..."

I should stop making excuses for myself.

capt_slog

Not half as bad as 'like' stuck into the conversation every few words.

"Anyway, I was like going to Tesco and there was this like trolley and it was like stuck to another one like" the ramblings of a true f*ckwit.

lucan2

It's 'look', or 'listen' at the start of every answer that really grinds my gears. Most noticeably by Australians and politicians. It always makes the speaker come across as an arrogant, condescending ba$tard.

arran77

"To be honest" is another one, it's usually followed by complete tosh!

CiB

Had to turn the radio over this morning, what with the woman answering all her questions with a rising inflection and then the bloke who started all his answers with So. And these are people who've 'done well' in life.

Humphreys is known to be a stickler for grammar etc. I reckon he needs an email bouncing his way.

Cleat Eastwood

I told someone that you could have a double negative but not a double positive - he said "yeah, right" :roll:

smoggysteve

So what?

smoggysteve

arran77 wrote:

"To be honest" is another one, it's usually followed by complete tosh!

Any time I hear someone start a sentence with, "Well, basically......" winds me up.

Blacktemplar

Capt Slog wrote:

Not half as bad as 'like' stuck into the conversation every few words.

"Anyway, I was like going to Tesco and there was this like trolley and it was like stuck to another one like" the ramblings of a true f*ckwit.

Generational thing I suspect, rather than out-and-out f*ckwitism.... my 20-year-old son uses "like" every second word, like. Drives me like mad like. Like. He may be many things, but a f*ckwit is not one of them.....

Frank the tank

Ya know.

sev112

Absolutely

joenobody

sev112 wrote:

Absolutely

I was in a meeting recently. A colleague was chatting with the client, and I found myself nodding at the things he was saying. As he finished talking I looked at the client and said "absolutely", agreeing with what my colleague had been saying. I then immediately realised that there's not a chance I'd understood a word of what was said as both colleague and client were talking in Italian, and I can't speak it! :oops:

I've tried to use the word less since then, but it's difficult as I work in sales (not a salesman) and I find I have to positively reinforce what the sales people I work with are telling our clients.

Hoopdriver

I try to avoid repetitively redundant tautologies myself

smoggysteve

Hoopdriver wrote:

I try to avoid repetitively redundant tautologies myself

Really?

CambsNewbie

"innit" constantly winds me up and unfortunately for me, in the job I do, I hear it a lot.

As much as I hate it, if it was used instead of "isn't it?" I could understand, but it seems to be thrown in at random places throughout a sentence and quite often several times.

Me: "So young man why are you and three of your friends parked up in a car park at 3am and why can I smell cannabis?"
Young Man "Me and my bloods was just listening to ma music, innit, you get me blood? Cannabis? That ain't cannabis innit, cos what 'append was like, innit, there was another car here, innit and they was all smoking the weed and that's why it smells. You get me innit?"

jordan_217

CambsNewbie wrote:

"innit" constantly winds me up and unfortunately for me, in the job I do, I hear it a lot.

As much as I hate it, if it was used instead of "isn't it?" I could understand, but it seems to be thrown in at random places throughout a sentence and quite often several times.

Me: "So young man why are you and three of your friends parked up in a car park at 3am and why can I smell cannabis?"
Young Man "Me and my bloods was just listening to ma music, innit, you get me blood? Cannabis? That ain't cannabis innit, cos what 'append was like, innit, there was another car here, innit and they was all smoking the weed and that's why it smells. You get me innit?"

Kids these days. I mean, being in a car park at 0300 and not dogging?! Some people are just oxygen thieves.

pinno

SmoggySteve wrote:

Hoopdriver wrote:

I try to avoid repetitively redundant tautologies myself

Really?

You don't say ?

Its as bad as people who go hmm haa ahh hmm every other word during an interview. It often happens em, when er.. the Beeb is interviewing er.. wotsits, erm.. you know, err.. oh yes, Europeans/foreigners who don't em.. speak English as err, em.. their mother erm... tongue.
Which makes you always wonder why they can't speak in their mother tongue and we get subtitles so that things aren't lost/simplified/distorted whilst they struggle to allegorise in a language which isn't their own.

smoggysteve

pinarello001 wrote:

SmoggySteve wrote:

Hoopdriver wrote:

I try to avoid repetitively redundant tautologies myself

Really?

You don't say ?

Its as bad as people who go hmm haa ahh hmm every other word during an interview. It often happens em, when er.. the Beeb is interviewing er.. wotsits, erm.. you know, err.. oh yes, Europeans/foreigners who don't em.. speak English as err, em.. their mother erm... tongue.
Which makes you always wonder why they can't speak in their mother tongue and we get subtitles so that things aren't lost/simplified/distorted whilst they struggle to allegorise in a language which isn't their own.

Your right innit?