23 Sep So… (cont.)
Maritime Noon host Costas Halavrezos has interviewed hundreds of so-talkers:
“So” is the name of a great Peter Gabriel album, but I’ve had precisely the same discussion with colleagues about its use as a preface to answers.
I first noticed the “so” tic when interviewing American academics and bureaucrats, but it has clearly become an invasive species here, with increasing prevalence over the past year.
(I should start assembling the digital detritus I’ve edited out of interviews: so, um, well, uh.)