"So" Rant

[JohnnyDee]

Watching Dragons' Den tonight and I want to smash my TV.

There is an infuriating trend for entrepreneurs to prefix every utterance with "so".

It's not only on DD either, more often than not if you see any so-called expert on the news, particularly from the business or scientific communities answering almost any question, then "so" seems to be de rigueur.

For The love of God please STOP!! STOP NOW!!

Rant over and thank you for allowing me to share with the group.

 

[Jimaroid]

So you're not a fan?

 

[JohnnyDee]

So you're not a fan?

So, you're not wrong :thup:

It makes me long for the days when "going forward" was the buzz phrase that wanted to make me throttle those uttering it

 

[Tashyboy]

So, you're not wrong :thup:

It makes me long for the days when "going forward" was the buzz phrase that wanted to make me throttle those uttering it

1, Not quite got the point of people having a rant, can't see were it gets you.

2, having said that you will be getting my unofficial title of GM miserable git if you carry on:rofl:

 

[SocketRocket]

So! You literally don't like it.

 

[delc]

So, you're not wrong :thup:

It makes me long for the days when "going forward" was the buzz phrase that wanted to make me throttle those uttering it

I used to work with a guy who was incapable of talking anything other than 'management speak'! So (sorry!) everything had to be 'a worst case scenario', 'thinking outside the box', 'at this moment in time' when he meant now, etc, etc. Drove me crazy in meetings! My other pet hate is people who start every sentence with the word 'And'. It's a conjunction, normally meant to join phrases together in a middle of a sentence.

 

[Hobbit]

So, we shouldn't go forward with this.

 

[Tashyboy]

So so thread ?

 

[CliveW]

Well..., I hate the use of "So..." too.

 

[JohnnyDee]

So, we shouldn't go forward with this.

Definitely not.

So so thread ?

Think I need to drill down a bit and option some blue-sky thinking.

So! You literally don't like it.

I'm not a fan

1, Not quite got the point of people having a rant, can't see were it gets you.

2, having said that you will be getting my unofficial title of GM miserable git if you carry on:rofl:

My other name name is Victor Meldrew.

Well..., I hate the use of "So..." too.

Now you're talking. A man after my own heart.

 

[SocketRocket]

So, you're problem is?

 

[JohnnyDee]

So, we shouldn't go forward with this.

So so thread ?

So! You literally don't like it.

1, Not quite got the point of people having a rant, can't see were it gets you.

2, having said that you will be getting my unofficial title of GM miserable git if you carry on:rofl:

Well..., I hate the use of "So..." too.

I used to work with a guy who was incapable of talking anything other than 'management speak'! So (sorry!) everything had to be 'a worst case scenario', 'thinking outside the box', 'at this moment in time' when he meant now, etc, etc. Drove me crazy in meetings! My other pet hate is people who start every sentence with the word 'And'. It's a conjunction, normally meant to join phrases together in a middle of a sentence.

Exactly!! Drives me mental but I am perhaps a little bit too pedantic for my own good sometimes.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

So what

 

[pendodave]

Aussie sports talking heads prefix every utterance with 'Look....'

These things spread like a virus.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Watching Dragons' Den tonight and I want to smash my TV.

There is an infuriating trend for entrepreneurs to prefix every utterance with "so".

It's not only on DD either, more often than not if you see any so-called expert on the news, particularly from the business or scientific communities answering almost any question, then "so" seems to be de rigueur.

For The love of God please STOP!! STOP NOW!!

Rant over and thank you for allowing me to share with the group.

Not just entrepreneurs - just listen to Radio 4 Today or Radio 5 Live in the mornings - many many interviews we get answers starting so...John Humphrys and Nicky Campbell must really have to bit their tongues. I think it may have come presentation skills courses where the presenter is taught to use 'so...' as a holding mechanism (pause filler) whilst he thinks up what to say. Annoying - oui!

Mind you - for a moment I thought you were going to be complaining about the great Peter Gabriel album of the same title.

 

[Jimaroid]

Language evolves. So deal with it.

 

[rickg]

My other pet hate is people who start every sentence with the word 'And'. It's a conjunction, normally meant to join phrases together in a middle of a sentence.

And your point is?

 

[JohnnyDee]

Language evolves. So deal with it.

True, but I fear that in this particular case then that will not be possible. It is like a red rag to a bull for me and right up there with my almost pathological hatred of the ubiquitous incorrect use of "stood" and "sat".

*Fears that now I have really opened a can of, as they say in Scotland, wurrims*

 

[Foxholer]

... It's a conjunction, normally meant to join phrases together in a middle of a sentence.

How about the guys that who use a 'big' word, then a dozen more that explain it!

Btw. '...in a middle of a sentence...' is wrong. Try '... within a sentence ...' or simply leave it out!

And (sic) I can understand those who dislike the use of quotes (' or ") and bracketed text too!

 

[palindromicbob]

Come to Northern Ireland and enjoy it as part of the end to many sentences.

"So, that rant about so was a bit crazy, so it was."