Why do younger people start to answer a question with, 'so'.?
RE: Not in my time
Jul 18, 2023
Last reply: 2 years ago
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Theey're obviously following the lead of the Met Police Commissioner, who was doing it all the time during his interview on Today this morning.
Or Robert Preston, political commentator for ITN. He has long started his answers with 'So...'
Um, well...
It's just like the way they speak like, like you know what I mean like.
You know, er, yebut, nobut, iss normal, you know, innit, bro.
(So,) it's the result of a dying educational system and the increasing power of international electronic brainwashing?
Say it ain't So!
... basically ...
Dunno. Alas Smith & Jones, series 2, episode 6 -
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So, you think it is only young people?
Sadly, it isn't. It drives me absolutely mad waiting for that inevitable "So...." at the start of nearly every reply (and occasionally even spontaneously and unprovoked during ordinary speech). However, although it seems to have spread through parts of the UK faster than a dose of Covid, there may be signs that it is burning itself out, as there are now occasions when I'm beginning to hear the old familiar "Well...." back again.
No, it's BBC presenter as well :-(
Am 18/07/2023 um 10:58 schrieb Jeff Gaines:
All of them or just the peados?
I think it's because none of them have been on Keir Starmer's Oracy course. Or at least, not yet.
Is the idea to make everybody white? Or what colours are they actually dyeing the kids these days?
Peston, Shirley?
Pseudo-intellectualism?
I have heard a claim that it is an equivalent of the French "alors" or even "donc".
Mind you, I also heard that "innit?" was just a non-standard English translation of "n'est ce pas?".
So ...
I thought that was what I had typed.
He died in 1987, I believe.
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