tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post52085664078160291..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: So SoMike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-60335741871639501132016-01-25T13:51:07.651+00:002016-01-25T13:51:07.651+00:00However ...<a href="http://xkcd.com/1483/" rel="nofollow">However</a> ...Zouk Delorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983226210415857258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-9072838239420872382015-11-22T18:35:27.375+00:002015-11-22T18:35:27.375+00:00amolitor,
Yes, it can be an implicit appeal to an...amolitor,<br /><br />Yes, it can be an implicit appeal to an authority one hasn't actually earned. A bit like art that claims to "refer" to serious issues because, well, it just does (cf. last week's "Classic Doonesbury" thread from 1985, with J.J.'s completed "suite of paintings").<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-84138032421870563422015-11-22T18:08:47.177+00:002015-11-22T18:08:47.177+00:00One common usage is to present the illusion that w...One common usage is to present the illusion that what you're about to say follows logically, inescapably, from something else, something I may have left out, or some random unrelated blather.<br /><br />"So we should deport everyone who doesn't look like us."<br /><br />People often confuse something that has the general shape of an argument with an actual argument.<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-48572339232294861592015-11-21T16:50:50.917+00:002015-11-21T16:50:50.917+00:00Zouk,
Interesting, if it's true it started wi...Zouk,<br /><br />Interesting, if it's true it started with programmers -- sort of like declaring the opening of a subroutine... Wonder if there's a "closing so" to go with it?(os?)<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-51779444540058543172015-11-21T14:58:59.299+00:002015-11-21T14:58:59.299+00:00I have read a discussion of this usage based on te...I have read a discussion of this usage based on textual analysis (can't remember where, maybe a search of http://allthingslinguistic.com/ would turn it up), which concluded that this started with computer programmers in Silicon Valley in the mid-eighties, which suggests your last "translation" could be quite accurate.<br /><br />As for the question of whether a transcription would properly include a comma after the "So" (something we discussed a good while back in private correspondence, you may recall), I believe that sometimes it would and sometimes it wouldn't: when "Well," would be a perfect substitute, it is said with a similar pause after the introductory "I will now answer your question" declaration, but in many other cases (agreed) the "so" runs straight into the answer -- in the same way as when one is explaining a chain of cause and effect. Both incredibly irritating to us old folk but unlikely, I feel, to diminish in frequency ... going forward.<br /><br />So there!Zouk Delorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983226210415857258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-71953188106758910792015-11-20T15:35:35.474+00:002015-11-20T15:35:35.474+00:00So you old so and so, I think your explanation is ...So you old so and so, I think your explanation is only so so!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12110715385292424139noreply@blogger.com