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  • visualnickmos
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 3609

    Originally posted by mangerton View Post
    So who started the annoying habit of starting a sentence - especially an answer - with "so", and why?

    Apologies if this has already been raised. Searching for "so" is a thankless task.



    It's really no different from using "Alors" in French

    So, there we are - voila!

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    • jean
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 7100

      Or Allora in Italian...

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      • vinteuil
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 12788

        Originally posted by visualnickmos View Post
        It's really no different from using "Alors" in French

        [/I]
        ... so there you have it.

        In French I like starting sentences with "Or, ... " rather than "Alors, ... "

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37591

          Originally posted by visualnickmos View Post



          It's really no different from using "Alors" in French

          So, there we are - voila!
          I always thought "D'ailleurs" meant dalliers.

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          • vinteuil
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12788

            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
            I always thought "D'ailleurs" meant dalliers.
            So, not 'dahlias'?

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            • Serial_Apologist
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 37591

              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              So, not 'dahlias'?
              Not even in flowery French!

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30243

                I think nowadays it's used slightly differently, inasmuch as it used to mean, 'So, taking up where we'd left off', 'So, going back to that point' &c. Now it doesn't seem to connect with anything. Just a phatic: 'I'm now going to say something …'
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • ahinton
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 16122

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                  So, not 'dahlias'?
                  Or even Delius, who ended his days in France?

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37591

                    Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                    Or even Delius, who ended his days in France?
                    From d'ailleurs to Delius - one short ride in a fast forum!

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                    • ahinton
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 16122

                      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                      From d'ailleurs to Delius - one short ride in a fast forum!
                      Oh, now you're introducing dollars into it!

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                      • mangerton
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3346

                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        I think nowadays it's used slightly differently, inasmuch as it used to mean, 'So, taking up where we'd left off', 'So, going back to that point' &c. Now it doesn't seem to connect with anything. Just a phatic: 'I'm now going to say something …'
                        Yes, this is what I was trying to get at. Thanks, ff.

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                        • Padraig
                          Full Member
                          • Feb 2013
                          • 4226

                          So. I half heard an ad on television. The punch line was -Do the maths. I thought - that doesn't sound right; it should be do the math. Have the Americans scored this time?
                          Go figure.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26523

                            Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                            So. I half heard an ad on television. The punch line was -Do the maths. I thought - that doesn't sound right; it should be do the math. Have the Americans scored this time?
                            Go figure.
                            Way to go, Paddy





                            Hate "way to go" ... or rather, "wayda go" which is how it comes out.
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26523

                              And another thing! ... Why can't people from the US (especially, I think, the West Coast) pronounce "Congratulations"?

                              It's always

                              "Congraddddulations"

                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                              • Beef Oven!
                                Ex-member
                                • Sep 2013
                                • 18147

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                And another thing! ... Why can't people from the US (especially, I think, the West Coast) pronounce "Congratulations"?

                                It's always

                                "Congraddddulations"

                                This will help them......

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