The 411 on Boston College!

leanid
Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:55:58 +0000

Helvetica,

Best of luck getting into BC!

You sound intelligent and you can “definitely” spell – an ability that is becoming more the exception than the rule, it seems.

As an old BC grad – and one who has never liked trends and fads (okay, never mind that I was the first boy in my junior high school to wear a “Beatle” haircut!) – I am curious why someone as intelligent as you would begin a topic with “So”. This is a trend quite common amoung the young and I am merely wondering how it got to be so rampant?

My guess is it is supposed to sound sophisticated, as if one is merely adding on to, what seems to be, an endless planetary conversation of a self-appointed inner circle…

While using ‘so’ to begin a sentence may sound very “now” and “with it” it is assuredly incorrect usage, so (notice it follows a comma not a period) how do you explain it?