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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I suspect that if there was (were) a satnav for the twists and turns of this thread, we would be revisiting home base again. It's always good to be home.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Well said Dove.   

    I have volunteered to help an English teacher and his teenage students with a project where they make English desserts and cakes, presumably to sell.   There is to be a planning meeting in February.  I confirmed I would be present but needed to be told where and at what time.   His reply started "So, ...........".    Met him last Tuesday at the monthly Scrabble game.  Nice chap.   When I get to know him better, we'll discuss Americanisms and starting sentences with conjunctions.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    So maybe they could so things to sell. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Grammar experts would probably call ‘so’, used in the ways we’re talking about, as a conjunctive adverb or a discourse marker.

    What irritates me is an exaggerated jaw drop when something mildly unusual is said. What happened to an almost imperceptible raising of the eyebrow?
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That means hello but I don't want to talk to you
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    A conjunctive adverb connects two clauses.  It doesn't start a sentence.   The word "so" already has many uses in different situations.

    OH can't raise just one eyebrow.  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Obelixx said:
    ....  OH can't raise just one eyebrow.  
    Mine can ... and he can wiggle his ears ... one at a time or both together  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Obelixx said:
    OH can't raise just one eyebrow.  
    Oh come on, it's not rocket surgery. :o
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I know, but he can't do single eyebrow raising or ear wiggling.    Nor can Possum.   I can.   They think I'm weird.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I recently attended a recording of "I'm sorry, I haven't a clue", where I heard this:  A tourist from the US is in London, stops a passing stranger and asks, "Where's St Paul's Cathedral at?" . The stranger says, "In Britain, we don't end a sentence with a preposition.". The American says, "Where's St Paul's cathedral at, Asshole?"
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