The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30912   Message #399957
Posted By: Amos
17-Feb-01 - 12:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Stop doing this right now!
Subject: RE: BS: Stop doing this right now!
One of mine is the stupid, subliterate, ungrammatical and actually manipulative (sometimes) stunt of making a declarative sentence and appending "..soooo.....", to it. It is used to invite you, the listener, to do or say something they want you to do or say, even though the desired idea is theirs, not yours.

Another abuse of the same word, but abusing a different defintion of it, is the youthful practice of attrributiong an extreme quality by saying something is "soooooo" followed by a phrase ('he is soooo to die for!') or even worse, a negation, as in "that is sooooo Not True!".

Finally, a feel like kicking someone when they offer one of those push-button thought-packets condensed into a single irrlevant word. In midconversation, for example, you might hear such a person interject, "Doooood!", to indicate strong protest or disagreement with something juts said.

On the other hand, I was part of the great conspiracy of eternal newness which foisted "Hey, man", "hey, mon", "far out", "cooool", and a few other abominations (by the standards of the time) on the English-speaking world, so i guess I am just recycling a second-hand karma... (The dots are called an ellipsis, and have a legitimate grammatical and typographical role in mainstream written English...but I forget what it is. :>)))

AmoswhoisgettingsuckedbackintotheMudcatvortexagainsthiswill....