# So?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so/16304>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 21, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so/16304 "2000-04-21T07:49:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![iceprincess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e495f1/32.png) [@iceprincess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iceprincess)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so/16304/1 "2000-04-21T07:49:00Z")

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I think the appropriate question at this point is, “What do we really deserve?”

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**Author:** ![iceprincess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e495f1/32.png) [@iceprincess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iceprincess)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so/16304/2 "2000-04-21T07:51:00Z")

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Oops!! My mistake, I hit the wrong key. I meant to post this under the thread “Life is unfair…” Sorry guys.

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**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so/16304/3 "2000-04-21T09:17:00Z")

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_so?_

Sheesh. It matters to me.

So . . . so what ??

iceprincess, you need to stop these so/so posts.

😉

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**Author:** ![Smile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Smile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smile)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so/16304/4 "2000-04-21T12:29:00Z")

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So sew a sow some socks.

Seriously. Pigs get cold feet too, you know. The peril of living in a damp muddy environment.

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Luther Blisset is Everyman.  
So Smile.

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**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so/16304/5 "2000-04-22T05:27:00Z")

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That was a pretty good album, but I dig Peter Gabriel’s older stuff a bit more.

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Yer pal,  
Satan

[http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif](http://www.raleighmusic.com/board/Images/devil.gif)

_Still not smoking, but away from my meter!_

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**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so/16304/6 "2000-04-22T22:34:00Z")

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Old Peter Gabriel, great, new Gabriel not near as good.

Nice call Satan.

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There’s not a single grey hair on my soul,  
nor senile tenderness either.  
I’ve shaken the world with my voice’s power:  
There I go handsome,  
Twenty-two years old

-Mayakovsky-

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so/16304/7 "2000-04-22T22:50:00Z")

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1so "so, esp before adj or adv followed by “that” se\ adverb [ME, fr. OE swa; akin to OHG so so, L sic so, thus, si if, Gk hos so, thus, L suus one’s own — more at suicide] (bef. 12c)  
1 a : in a manner or way indicated or suggested \<do you really think so\> — often used as a substitute for a preceding clause \<are you ready? I think so\> \<I didn’t like it and I told her so\>  
b : in the same manner or way : also \<worked hard and so did she\>  
c : thus \<for so the Lord said — Isa 18:4 (AV)\>  
d : then, subsequently \<and so home and to bed\>  
2 a : to an indicated or suggested extent or degree \<had never been so happy\>  
b : to a great extent or degree : very, extremely \<loves her so\>  
c : to a definite but unspecified extent or degree \<can only do so much in a day\>  
d : most certainly : indeed \<you did so do it\>  
3 : therefore, consequently \<the witness is biased and so unreliable\>

Usage  
The intensive use of so (sense 2b) is widely condemned in college handbooks but is nonetheless standard \<why is American television so shallow? — Anthony Lewis\> \<the cephalopod eye is an example of a remarkable evolutionary parallel because it is so like the eye of a vertebrate — Sarah F. Robbins\> \<the kind of sterile over-ingenuity which afflicts so many academic efforts — Times Lit. Supp.\>. There is no stigma attached to its use in negative contexts and when qualified by a dependent clause \<not so long ago\> \<was so good in mathematics that he began to consider engineering — Current Biog.\>. The denotation in these uses is, of course, slightly different (see sense 2a).

©1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. All rights reserved.

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**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so/16304/8 "2000-04-24T04:11:00Z")

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Ummm, when do we start shooting up the school?