Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Language update
So Professor Polistra is back with just one word. So this one word has exploded like an algal bloom, taking over the lake of language.
So every sentence now begins with this word. So it's getting mighty tiring, but no relief in sight. So this seems to have begun with Shotgun Paulson's queer little mini-me Neel Kashkari. So it then spread to all "experts" and givers of answers on TV.
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Admittedly the use of so at the start of a sentence is not at all new, but before Kashkari it was mainly used as an interjection, either hearty or nasty, or in an "interrupted" compound sentence.
Hearty interjection: "So! How's the project going?"
Nasty interjection: "So! I knew you were tomcatting around, but I didn't think you'd do it in our own bedroom!"
Interrupted compound sentence: "Despite this, the state public health agencies have been watching carefully and have found no cases of flu at all. So the basic assumption may be incorrect." [In these cases the second sentence is really a clause of the first sentence and by strict rules would be joined with a comma.]
So Professor Polistra is back with just one word. So this one word has exploded like an algal bloom, taking over the lake of language.
So every sentence now begins with this word. So it's getting mighty tiring, but no relief in sight. So this seems to have begun with Shotgun Paulson's queer little mini-me Neel Kashkari. So it then spread to all "experts" and givers of answers on TV.
= = = = =
Admittedly the use of so at the start of a sentence is not at all new, but before Kashkari it was mainly used as an interjection, either hearty or nasty, or in an "interrupted" compound sentence.
Hearty interjection: "So! How's the project going?"
Nasty interjection: "So! I knew you were tomcatting around, but I didn't think you'd do it in our own bedroom!"
Interrupted compound sentence: "Despite this, the state public health agencies have been watching carefully and have found no cases of flu at all. So the basic assumption may be incorrect." [In these cases the second sentence is really a clause of the first sentence and by strict rules would be joined with a comma.]
Labels: Language update
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