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[email protected] · June 6th 18, 12:52 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:45:45 +0100
Scott wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 11:34:18 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:04:20 +0100
Scott wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 10:10:00 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:01:38 +0100
Scott wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 09:37:27 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

More empty threats from the RMT or did the lazy bolshevics not get enough
support from the sane section of their membership and decided to save face
instead?

So why do people insist on starting sentences with the word 'so'?

Emphasis. Look it up.

Conjunction. Look it up.

So what?

As you can see, some words have multiple roles.

I don't think politicians and others on the 'Today' programme starting
every sentence with the word 'so' is one of them.

However, I did not mean to have go at you personally, as a helpful
contributor to multiple groups. It was really intended as a societal
observation.

Just one of many grammatical tics we all use from time to time I suppose.
If you stripped english sentences of all the dead wood and filler you could
probably shorten a lot of them by half.

English stripped of dead wood and filler, could probably shorten by half.