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The use of ?so? to initiate a response to a question - grrr


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So, why are so many people starting responses these days with this rather patronising and lazy sentence opener?


I am noticing it more and more, and it is becoming a ?so? epidemic. It?s such a conversational downgrade, and when used in the media or by people who should know better it seems to grate me even more. No excuse for poor grammar and lifeless responses. Any opinions?


Louisa.

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It's one of those thigns that, because of social and mass media, gets heard more and more and so adopted more and more. I don't like it but it is not as bad as the "can I get"! I think people don't think "oo, I am going to adopt a new way of speaking" but they do it anyway.
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I can't abide the use of "call out" .


It sounds so smug to me as if the "caller out" is doing us all a favour with some high minded discovery of wrong doing that they are nobly sharing with the world . Plus it always conjurs up ( to me ) the image of someone being summonsed to the front of a class room /meeting and being humiliated .


It's a catch all use which dumbs down the language and strips it of nuance .


What's wrong with "challenged" ,"held to account" ,or heaven forfend the kinder "asked to explain ".

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Nigello Wrote:

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> not as bad as the "can I get"!

>



I agree, that really annoys me, although I accept that people aren't going to stop using it so I'll just have to live with it. I went for a job interview once and the guy interviewing me made constant use of the phrase "hit the ground running". in every effing sentence ... I just had to carry on and pretend I knew what he was talking about. :)

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FJDGoose Wrote:

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I went for a job

> interview once and the guy interviewing me made

> constant use of the phrase "hit the ground

> running". in every effing sentence ... I just had

> to carry on and pretend I knew what he was talking

> about. :)



So ..... did you get the job? :)) :)) :))


And if you did, did you hit the ground running? :)) :)) :))

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FJDGoose Wrote:

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> Nigello Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> >

> > not as bad as the "can I get"!

> >

>

>

> I agree, that really annoys me, although I accept

> that people aren't going to stop using it so I'll

> just have to live with it. I went for a job

> interview once and the guy interviewing me made

> constant use of the phrase "hit the ground

> running". in every effing sentence ... I just had

> to carry on and pretend I knew what he was talking

> about. :)



The CEO probably used it the week before.

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Sue Wrote:

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> FJDGoose Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> I went for a job

> > interview once and the guy interviewing me made

> > constant use of the phrase "hit the ground

> > running". in every effing sentence ... I just

> had

> > to carry on and pretend I knew what he was

> talking

> > about. :)

>

>

> So ..... did you get the job? :)) :)) :))

>

> And if you did, did you hit the ground running?

> :)) :)) :))


No :) :) :)

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JohnL Wrote:

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> FJDGoose Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Nigello Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > >

> > > not as bad as the "can I get"!

> > >

> >

> >

> > I agree, that really annoys me, although I

> accept

> > that people aren't going to stop using it so

> I'll

> > just have to live with it. I went for a job

> > interview once and the guy interviewing me made

> > constant use of the phrase "hit the ground

> > running". in every effing sentence ... I just

> had

> > to carry on and pretend I knew what he was

> talking

> > about. :)

>

>

> The CEO probably used it the week before.



:))

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FJDGoose Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > FJDGoose Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > I went for a job

> > > interview once and the guy interviewing me

> made

> > > constant use of the phrase "hit the ground

> > > running". in every effing sentence ... I just

> > had

> > > to carry on and pretend I knew what he was

> > talking

> > > about. :)

> >

> >

> > So ..... did you get the job? :)) :)) :))

> >

> > And if you did, did you hit the ground running?

> > :)) :)) :))

>

> No :) :) :)



You clearly didn't use enough stupid language during the interview :))

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The only time I can recall ever enjoying the expression 'Reach out' was when the Four Tops used it


The name of this thread should be changed to 'Vile misuse of the English language' and could serve as a repository of rants containing examples of apostrophe catastrophes, the literally millions of times one hears the word 'literally' spoken by people who have literally never read a book, the wrongful usage of 'enormity,' and other grammatical crimes that should, in my opinion, be punishable by either a light prison sentence or perhaps tazering.

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Captain Marvel Wrote:

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> The only time I can recall ever enjoying the

> expression 'Reach out' was when the Four Tops used

> it

>

> The name of this thread should be changed to 'Vile

> misuse of the English language' and could serve as

> a repository of rants containing examples of

> apostrophe catastrophes, the literally millions of

> times one hears the word 'literally' spoken by

> people who have literally never read a book, the

> wrongful usage of 'enormity,' and other

> grammatical crimes that should, in my opinion, be

> punishable by either a light prison sentence or

> perhaps tazering.


Hear, hear. I think prison sentences are too good for these people. I feel sending them out to the middle of the Atlantic in a small rowing boat, would be a more apt punishment.


Louisa.

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