So, the use of the word "So" in the US.

[Little_Pig]

@guizot

Remember, we’re specifically talking about answering an interviewer’s query. Imagine a conversation like this:

*A: Do you come here often?
B: So I come by from time to time, after work.
A: Yeah, me too. What do you do?
B: So I’m a cashier.
A: Really? Where?
B: So I work at the boutique up the street.
A: Cool. I like that place. What’s it called again?
B: So it’s called “Y Que?”
A: Right! I can never remember it. Have you been there long?
B: So I started there last August.
A: Nice. Haven’t I seen you at the college?
B: So yes, I’m a student, too.
A: Yeah, me too. What do you study?
B: So I study theater.
*

This is what’s new. This is the way that interviews on TV and radio are starting to sound like, MORE and MORE.

Can you see how this is distinct?

Yes guizot, I hear it a lot on NPR and interviews on TV. I usually dismiss the speaker as being influenced by a certain segment of the population raised in the San Fernando Valley during the 70’s.