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Re: So, the most over-used word in the English language is now. . .

Hi Sooner!  Smiley Happy

 

I really think I need to start a notebook of words that we need to stop using.  I can't keep up anymore.

 

This is another one I use, BUT it's not incessantly.    I tend to find that there are numerous words I use that people here cannot stand but I keep forgetting to write them down.  Oh well   Smiley Wink

 

So, the moral of the story is - Oh, I don't know - Happy Day!  Smiley Happy hee

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Re: So, the most over-used word in the English language is now. . .


@MaggieMack wrote:



@hckynut, new nic and new avatar? Handsome! (No, not flirting with you).


 

 

 

@MaggieMack

 

Not a new nic, just recovered my original.  Pix?  A few years back before I officially became a real old man. Flirting. Very seldom on the receiving end of a flirt, I get'cha.    =^..^=

 

 

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Re: So, the most over-used word in the English language is now. . .


@Puzzle Piece wrote:

I have a girlfriend who ends her statements with "and so".  She's an Ivy League grad.  I'd go get my money back if I were her. 


If she went to an Ivy League school, I hope she would have said, "if I were she."  

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Re: So, the most over-used word in the English language is now. . .


@Puzzle Piece wrote:

I have a girlfriend who ends her statements with "and so".  She's an Ivy League grad.  I'd go get my money back if I were her. 


Chip Kelly, the former Philadelphia Eagles coach (and current San Francisco 49er's coach), was like that too.  Every response to reporters' questions ended thusly: "so ..."  It was like he didn't know how to finish a thought.  Or didn't want to say what he thought (for example, "so ... you're an idiot."  He didn't get along well with reporters.)

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Re: So, the most over-used word in the English language is now. . .

Say it ain't so Joe.

"Live frugally, but love extravagantly."
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Re: So, the most over-used word in the English language is now. . .

I think people use so as a softener or an enticement to what they say next.So gets the person prepped for the rest of the sentence IMO.

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Re: So, the most over-used word in the English language is now. . .

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For me I think it's more of a 'so, then this is what happened/to do/whatever next'.  

 

e.x. - 'So, then I went to the store and the same thing happened'  or - 'So, what you want to do next is ... '.

 

To be realistic, I do recognize that the 'so' does not need to be there on either of those examples.  Smiley Happy   I just also recognize that I do tend to do that, for whatever reason.

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Re: So, the most over-used word in the English language is now. . .

I thought you were going to write that the word is "Like"

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Re: So, the most over-used word in the English language is now. . .

Doesn't bother me at all.

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Re: So, the most over-used word in the English language is now. . .

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@hckynut wrote:

@MaggieMack wrote:



@hckynut, new nic and new avatar? Handsome! (No, not flirting with you).


 

 

 

@MaggieMack

 

Not a new nic, just recovered my original.  Pix?  A few years back before I officially became a real old man. Flirting. Very seldom on the receiving end of a flirt, I get'cha.    =^..^=

 

 

hckynut(john)


Heck, John, I'll flirt! You are quite the handsome man!

 

Wonder how many of us have pictures (in our heads) of just what we think those on here look like. We tend to get to know a little something about each other, and I know that I certainly do have made up faces in my mind of those I participate with regularly. @hckynut