Pedants' Paradise

[vinteuil]

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'Or, pas de problème?'

[french frank]

It is not always just an empty filler, as it would sometimes seem to express the meaning: "I am saying what I about to say as a consequence of what you have just said".

Yes, though I'd need a another term, rather than 'Inconsequential So' as it differs a little from the 'So' with which the young things litter their speech.

[ahinton]

Litotes, ahinton.

Sorry; familiar as I am with that device, I'm unclear as to how you envisage its application here...

[ahinton]

Sorry; familiar as I am with that device, I'm unclear as to how you envisage its application here...

Rather as with "look" added to the end of a sentence, don't some Irish do the same with "so"?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It is not always just an empty filler, as it would sometimes seem to express the meaning: "I am saying what I about to say as a consequence of what you have just said".

Yes - isn't it just a more recent replacement of the "well" with which older folk used to begin their statements?

[french frank]

Yes - isn't it just a more recent replacement of the "well" with which older folk used to begin their statements?

Used to, ferney? Used to? It's almost a sine qua non of making a comment here!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Used to, ferney? Used to? It's almost a sine qua non of making a comment here!

Well, yes ...

[vinteuil]

Well, yes ...

So we're all happy here?

[Serial_Apologist]

Move a bit further West and they'd be saying Look you...

Oh, I always thought they meant "Loo queue"!

[jean]

Sorry; familiar as I am with that device, I'm unclear as to how you envisage its application here...

Think of my a bit further West as not that far West at all when (as you rightly point out) it really would be a very long way you'd have to go, and you'll get it.

[ahinton]

Think of my a bit further West as not that far West at all when (as you rightly point out) it really would be a very long way you'd have to go, and you'll get it.

I fear that I remain none the wiser.

[Alain Maréchal]

Possibly it is a useful way of indicating that one is about to speak. There are so many other noises about that one wants to be certain that the opening words of a sentence are heard. It avoids the responses "sorry?/say again?/pardon?/comment?/que?/quezaco?/scusi?/bitte?".

[Pulcinella]

I fear that I remain none the wiser.

Me either (or should that be Me neither?)

[vinteuil]

Move a bit further West and they'd be saying Look you...

Quite a distance further west, surely?

Litotes, ahinton.

Sorry; familiar as I am with that device, I'm unclear as to how you envisage its application here...

... litotes, ahinton, means understatement. I think jean is nudging you to reread what she said in that light...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litotes

... of course she may have also intended meiosis -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis_(figure_of_speech)

[kernelbogey]

Yes, though I'd need a another term, rather than 'Inconsequential So' as it differs a little from the 'So' with which the young things litter their speech.

As in 'You are so right...', or even 'I so do', 'I so can', etc.