See what I mean? What a load of shite; who wrote that? Ronan Keating?

About what I’d expect, really.
I can tell my Heroes from ghosts, though.
So, any more trolling from the OP?

It’s an introduction to speaking.

So; right then; well; now; ok; and many others. The French would go, “alors…”

They’re all considerably less annoying than “sorry, but…”

Seamus Heaney on his use of the word “So.” to open his version of Beowulf,

But in Hiberno-English Scullion-speak, the particle ‘so’ came naturally to the rescue, because in that idiom ‘so’ operates as an expression that obliterates all previous discourse and narrative, and at the same time functions as an exclamation calling for immediate attention. So, ‘so’ it was:

So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by
and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.
We have heard of those princes’ heroic campaigns.”

And if its good enough for Heaney, its good enough for me.

So now we know.

Good work stw.

“I guess” he did <sigh>…. You know who you are… 🙂

Seems to be used on Top Gear a lot when trying to get the audience to concentrate on the next item.

So; right then; well; now; ok; and many others. The French would go, “alors…”

So, I was just about to mention that the Italians use Allora for pretty much everything, when I saw your post. So I guess the word must have some common ancestry.

So Macho
He’s got to be
So Macho
He’s got to be big and strong enough
to turn me on
He’s got to have, big blue eyes
Be able to satisfy
He’s got to be big and strong enough
to turn me on

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

🙂

Peter Gabriel’s in trouble for how to name his album then.

I will add it to my list, along with:

Saying “actual” all the time for no reason
“ickcetera”
“pecific”

Happy now ?

(I always thought the “So,,,” thing came from Europe, I have noticed a lot of Skandos/Germans/Dutch do it at the start of a sentence when speaking English, there must be a Germanic equivalent.)

Didn’t take Gore very long:

😀

So, I was just about to mention that the Italians use Allora for pretty much everything, when I saw your post. So I guess the word must have some common ancestry.

(I always thought the “So,,,” thing came from Europe, I have noticed a lot of Skandos/Germans/Dutch do it at the start of a sentence when speaking English, there must be a Germanic equivalent.)

the Germans often start with “Also” which is a hybrid of the Franco/Latin Alors/allora, and the English So.

E.g. Also, was machen wir jetzt? (So, what shall we do now?)