The word "So." (Curmudgeon Corner)

[ish mailian]

Are your questions about speech or writing? Writing dialogue?

Although the question about the rule for comma use implies that you
are talking about writing, I can't be sure.

 In any event,  so ... in American English there are rules that guide
the use of punctuation, including the use of the comma as an internal
punctuation, but these "rules" are neither hard nor fast and are often
bent or broken by, well, practitioners of the Elements of Style.

see wh movement

see filler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_(linguistics)

http://www.bartleby.com/141/

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:17 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> And "So" should always be followed by a comma, right?
>
>
> On Thursday, September 15, 2016, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So is "So" a frame or official start of a statement? Could it easily be
>> replaced by "Lo?"
>>
>> On Thursday, September 15, 2016, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So, you wanted to be a musician....
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:41 AM, kelber at mindspring.com
>>> <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There's the Yiddish "nu," but in my experience, it's usually combined
>>>> with "so." Nu, so ...  or So, nu ...
>>>>
>>>> Laura
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A--And........another bit of wonderful ingenuity from TRP...
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 8:38 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ummm...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Protomen <protomen at protonmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, I thought it had always been so...
>>>>>> Say, what other words would you sacrifice as openers? Dig back to
>>>>>> ifaith, hwaet?
>>>>>> Yo why not steal one from another language, French had adonc, orça,
>>>>>> now "du coup" (much-maligned I'm sure)... or maybe just cut your losses.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>>> Subject: The word "So." (Curmudgeon Corner)
>>>>>> Local Time: 15 septembre 2016 4:13 AM
>>>>>> UTC Time: 15 septembre 2016 02:13
>>>>>> From: fqmorris at gmail.com
>>>>>> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it just me, or has "So," become as bad as "awesome? I hate awesome.
>>>>>> "So" is a curiosity.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David Morris
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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