So - What's This New Tendency To Reply With The Word "so" Before Saying Anything.

[ToraToraTora]

eg: How old is your grand mother? So, she's 76! aaaarrrgggghhhh! there's a silly moo on the chase tonight and when Brad was doing his little interview she started every single reply with "so...." - anyway nearly put me daisy through the roger!

[SparklyKid]

Just to annoy andy,lol.

[Mamyalynne]

I hadn't realised it was new, I have come across people speaking oddly before - but then I do spend a lot of time on AB.

[douglas9401]

I asked this very question a while back Tora, (never got an answer) it was the beginning of a long and tedious exchange after one of the moderators (aye, him) wilfully misunderstood and so was born 'the rule of so'.

Seems to be a fave of the affected lisping classes. :-)

[hereIam]

Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

[Mamyalynne]

An acquaintance of mine favours 'Well' - in your example her reply would have been...

'Well, she's 76!'

[ToraToraTora]

I think the AH "so" rule is more of an assumptive construct than just and annoying unnecessary prefix.

[Samuraisan]

I noticed that too TTT.

[wolf63]

TTT
Are you in any place to criticise other people's use of words?

nearly put me daisy through the roger

[douglas9401]

I'd have said more of a hijacked diabolical liberty myself. :-)

[sanmac]

So, talking about constructs, an English professor once lectured to his class that it is impossible in the English language to construct a negative from two positives. From the back of the room came the muttered "Yeah, right!".

[MallyJ]

I have been driven nuts by the word 'so' used at every opportunity...and that some people do not use the 't' in any word and it would seem that people no longer have children but are raising herds of baby goats. Is it really too hard to ennunciate the letter t or call children children? Evidently beyond the ability of quite a large proportion of the population.

[Jackdaw33]

Who doesn't understand 'Daisy through the Roger'? Plain as a pikestaff to me.

[Tuvok]

"Who doesn't understand 'Daisy through the Roger'? Plain as a pikestaff to me"

Me!

Should I ask what it means?

[diddlydo]

Never heard Daisy etc - what in earth does it mean?

[Mamyalynne]

Can't remember the last time I saw a pikestaff.

[Peter Pedant]

// wilfully misunderstood and so was born 'the rule of so'. //
ah...... so

//nearly put me daisy through the roger// foo !
so - we must all accept we have linguistic foibles - - - endof !

[DarceyK123]

A work mate of mine starts every conversation with "ear listen" in her cockney voice.

[Neveracrossword]

Tuvok, the meaning is 'I nearly put my boots through the telly'. Rather an odd concept! Daisy Roots gives Boots and Roger Mellie gives Telly.

[Jackdaw33]

Daisy Roots are boots, cf Lonnie Donegan, 'My old man's a dustman'.

Roger is more obscure; you will need to have read the Viz to twig.

[Cloverjo]

I think it's been going on for a couple of years now. Mostly a young person thing. My son does it, to my slight annoyance.
Me: How's work going?
Him: So, we're just about to start a new project....
or
Me: Are you doing much over the weekend?
Him: So, we're going to London....

I don't know how or why it started. We certainly didn't do that when I young.