Kevin Spacey And His Career.

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41869252

It seems that for now, at least, Spacey's career is in ruins. I hope we haven't lost this fine actor for ever.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - // So Khandro actually said 'that's OK' ? //

I think you know full well the point I am making, and if you don't, you'll excuse me if I don't pursue a semantics debate with you on this occasion - as I recall, the last one ended badly.

[youngmafbog]

Still waiting on the details of the Court case where he was found guilty.

Anyone?

[ummmm]

How many people have said he is guilty?

[youngmafbog]

Well, give his career seems to be over someone has.

It is pretty much what the OP is!

[-Talbot-]

andy ... you tie yourself up in knots with the ridiculous 'so' rule.

Time to admit it and sack it.

[davegosling]

Can someone please enlighten me as to what the 'so' rule is, please?

[ummmm]

Can't begin a sentence with 'so'

- this is ridiculous
- so you're saying it's ok?

That's Andy's 'so' rule.

[Cloverjo]

As we're in CB I'll wade (weigh?) in with my thoughts on 'So...'
by my rules (;.)) Andy was correct in his use of 'So..'. What bugs me and probably AH too is the following use. E.g. 'What do you do for a living?'
'So, I'm an accountant' (or whatever).

'Have you been to Australia?'
'So, I went there last year.'

[davegosling]

I see, I think!

I wouldn't have a problem beginning a sentence with 'so' in the sense of 'therefore'.

[Mamyalynne]

Ergo...

Is my favourite.

[ladybirder]

^ I don't think that's it but I'm sure AH will correct me if I'm wrong.

[-Talbot-]

andy's so rule.


It couldn't be simpler - you start a sentence with the word 'So ...' and then proceed to say something that the originator did not say, and then criticise them for saying it.

[douglas9401]

It's an affectation, nothing more or less. The professional classes, y'know, the ones who snort coke instead of paying tax on their drugs, feel it lends weight to whatever spraff follows.

[davegosling]

"I'm sure AH will correct me if I'm wrong"

Or even if you're right! ;-)

[ladybirder]

That was to Clover. I think Andy means posting as if addressee said something they didn't say at all.

[davegosling]

Thanks, Talbot. I think I get it now.

Is there any difference in this context between "So...?" and "Are you saying...?" or "Does that mean that...?"

[ummmm]

No, Dave.

[Khandro]

There is a widespread belief—one with no historical or grammatical foundation—that it is an error to begin a sentence with a conjunction such as, and, but, or so. In fact, a substantial percentage (often as many as 10 percent) of the sentences in first-rate writing begin with conjunctions. It has been so for centuries, and even the most conservative grammarians have followed this practice. Unquote.

But that aside, returning to this thread after a few hours I see the provincial virtue signallers are out in force, can one of them tell me what a 14 year old boy was doing at a party of adults, in an apartment with, by the sound of it, free-flowing alcohol?

[kvalidir]

Perhaps he'd given his parents / guardians the slip as 14 year olds are wont to do- who knows- it's still not a carte blanche to assault them is it? And I don't consider it to be virtue signalling to be repelled by the sexual assault of a child by an older man.

[Spicerack]

Jno ///if people have stupid ideas that gays are somehow more perverted than straights,///

Stupid?