In casual conversation, it's fine, at times, to start a sentence with "So," but understand that the listener, if intelligent, immediately believes you're about to either make up a story or give a detailed, and unnecessary back story. If used once within a conversation, I assume it will go unnoticed, but when it begins every sentence, it becomes a mental hurdle for those in attendance.
While So is bad, there's almost nothing quite like the nails-on-a-chalkboard sound of "Yeah, So..." It's as if the speaker is putting mammoth importance onto the beginning of something while sounding like a child in the playground. Little kids, smile, smirk, and Like, So their ways into stories about how their clothes got dirty or they broke their friend's toy, and we smile, pat them on the head and try not to laugh as we discipline them. Adults, should never, ever, start a sentence the same way a child caught with their hand in the cookie jar would.
Obviously, some might understand this and even know where my so-called inspiration is coming, but if not, I heard the same person say this, no less than eight times, in three conversations, just yesterday. This person also asked a college-educated woman "How was youses trip?" Again, let me remind or inform you, this word, youses, came out of the same mouth, that not only uttered the words "yeah, so" eight times, but also declared themselves "really fucking smart," just two weeks ago.
Somewhere Dunning and Kruger are smiling or eye-rolling. I simply cringe!
While So is bad, there's almost nothing quite like the nails-on-a-chalkboard sound of "Yeah, So..." It's as if the speaker is putting mammoth importance onto the beginning of something while sounding like a child in the playground. Little kids, smile, smirk, and Like, So their ways into stories about how their clothes got dirty or they broke their friend's toy, and we smile, pat them on the head and try not to laugh as we discipline them. Adults, should never, ever, start a sentence the same way a child caught with their hand in the cookie jar would.
Obviously, some might understand this and even know where my so-called inspiration is coming, but if not, I heard the same person say this, no less than eight times, in three conversations, just yesterday. This person also asked a college-educated woman "How was youses trip?" Again, let me remind or inform you, this word, youses, came out of the same mouth, that not only uttered the words "yeah, so" eight times, but also declared themselves "really fucking smart," just two weeks ago.
Somewhere Dunning and Kruger are smiling or eye-rolling. I simply cringe!
Comments
Post a Comment