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Well, I think that starting a sentence with “So” is pretty natural and common. Indeed: > So it’s often worth at least contemplating such feedback, if you care
by jchw 6y ago
Well, I think that starting a sentence with “So” is pretty natural and common. Indeed:
> So it’s often worth at least contemplating such feedback, if you care about being taken seriously.
(Maybe you were intending to joke here, but it still came off as “pretty natural.”)
- chrismorgan 6y agoMy use of the word “so” there occurred naturally and I deliberately left it there. However, it’s a different sense of the word “so”: it’s concretely meaning therefore, rather than just being a meaningless filler.
- messe 6y ago> My use of the word “so” there occurred naturally What was unnatural about the original use? English isn't exactly standardized, there are plenty of dialects in which "so" is a common way to start a sentence. It might not be part of what you perceive as the prestige[1] dialect, but it's still natural. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_(sociolinguistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_(sociolinguistics)
- chrismorgan 6y agoNothing. jchw was just querying whether I’d put it in deliberately. I didn’t; it was the wording that flowed out of my fingers (and then I decided to keep it).
- messe 6y agoAh. That's my bad. Re-reading, and that makes more sense. Apologies for taking such a hostile interpretation.