Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[ahinton]

You should listen more carefully - remember, you reap what you so.

!!!

By the way, I know a pianist who goes by the name Ernest So (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_So ); should he remain surnameless, one might wonder?

[P. G. Tipps]

You're not Sydney Grew in disguise, are you?...

No, but I am a huge admirer of that member even though I did fail to agree with his strong contention that human salvation lies in a world wholly without borders and populated exclusively with 'homosexualist' Marxists. I did find that rather a step too far ...

"Most supreme" is a tautology.

It is indeed ... well spotted !

Do I? I can try to do so, I guess...

That is the really important thing, ahinton ...

[jean]

On Michael Rosen's prog on R4 - Word of Mouth - they've just dealt among others with 'So....' at the start of answers...

Is no-one capable of telling me how far into the programme this discussion occurs?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

!!!

By the way, I know a pianist who goes by the name Ernest So

Does he have a wife/sister called "Eve R"?

[Stanfordian]

"What's not to like about that?"

[ahinton]

Does he have a wife/sister called "Eve R"?

!!! No idea...

[jean]

"What's not to like about that?"

Nothing - I like it!

[vinteuil]

Nothing - I like it!

... mwowsee!

[Richard Barrett]

On Michael Rosen's prog on R4 - Word of Mouth - they've just dealt among others with 'So....' at the start of answers, my very unfavouritest bit of verbals.

A terrible habit indeed, and one which I'm not immune to.

[teamsaint]

A terrible habit indeed, and one which I'm not immune to.

It's a so and so, isn't it?

[Oldcrofter]

English intonation test:
- So... So ?
-Hmm... so-so.
-Huh ? So ? So-so ?! Silly so 'n so !

[Serial_Apologist]

So what?
A button on my shirt.

[P. G. Tipps]

A terrible habit indeed, and one which I'm not immune to.

You may not be 'immune' to the terrible habit but it is a common disease which is completely self-curable.

A time-honoured method is simply to treat the 'so' response as being as wrong and inappropriate as continually using a four-letter word in front of the children or the local vicar.

I urge you to give it a go, Mr Barrett ... if you do, hopefully your example will inspire others to do the same.

[greenilex]

I think there are various ways of prolonging thinking time when in the throes of answering a direct question.

So is by no means the most irritating of these...

Ach so!

[Hornspieler]

"What's not to like?"
Why is everybody using that mode of expression these days?

Is it a question or an answer?

... or just an example of sarcastic anti semitism?

HS