Let's Discuss the Word "So"
By FibroGoddess
@FibroGodess (540)
United States
December 6, 2015 8:01am CST
Let's discuss the word "so". Is it a word you use, written or spoken, to begin sentences?
There are many definitions and uses for the word "so". There is only one use of the word begining a sentence. That is when it is linking in some way to the sentence before it.
I'm not a gramma snob, by any means. When I hear people use the word to begin a random sentence or a conversation, my brain skips a quick beat, not knowing how to process this uneccesary word. It doesn't make me angry, just a little nutty.
- So, I bought a new car today.
- So, how have you been?
- So, can you meet me tomorrow?
So, do you use the word "so" to begin your sentences? How does it make you feel listening to someone who uses the word to begin almost every sentence?
*be blessed and be well*
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8 responses
@FibroGodess (540)
• United States
6 Dec 15
oops. Thank you for catching my spelling mistake. *be well*
@boiboing (13147)
• Northampton, England
6 Dec 15
@FibroGodess I honestly thought it was intentional 
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@Drosophila (16568)
• Ireland
6 Dec 15
I use "so" to start a sentence if the sentence contains a solution to the problem I've just described in the previous sentence.
e.g. Ken has been pissing me off lately. So, I've decided to stop talking to him.
@OKennedy (1130)
• United States
11 Mar 16
I use the word just not often i think we sometimes use it to express that we are at a bit of a loss and want to present a question without seeming as if we are being nonchalant and await a positive result. Like the first sentence So,I bought a new car today. Something we want to share yet it seems almost to have no place to or time that is appropriate and it can seem as if you are almost rubbing it in.
@slund2041 (3314)
• United States
6 Dec 15
I see where you are coming from. I have been guilty of using the word "S" to start a sentence, but not every sentence. 
