So why is it that of late radio and TV correspondents, program hosts,
opinion praters and so on and so forth start their sentences, paragraphs,
pronouncements and political posturings with the word "So"? I've broached
this subject here before, so you've all had time to look it up. What is the
meaning of "so" when used suchly and what part of speech is it and why
does my Webster's Unabridged cite 23 different usages of "so" So,
you don't know, do you? So, don't try to pull bull on me. I wasn't born
no yesterday, nor even last week. I know what's so, so keep your "soes"
to your self unless you knows what of you sows (wow that was a good riff,
didn't you think so too?). I ask you again: Why would a news correspondent
begin a report: "So. Mr Trump lumps all non-whites and non-males into the
dangerous servant class. And plans to deport them all to Alaska. So. Mr.
Trump stubbed his toe." So. No one is apparently as up in arms over this
libertine use of so, at least not so much as I am. I'm not calling for the
Grammar Police, not yet, I think that if we all would just complain so
long and so loud and so-so violently, then the practice will come to an
end. So be it. So there. As they say. Yes, but why? Well because. As
it is with those who would be believed to be expert languagers, I say: So
be it.
Moi aussi.
