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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 244592" data-attributes="member: 23">I love my Pointless, but the contestants on this series are the absolute worst for my other current gripe: the trend of beginning sentences with &quot;so&quot;. Some days I just can&#039;t watch the first round when we&#039;re meeting the contestants. They typically go like this:I&#039;m all for occasionally beginning sentences occasionally with &quot;and&quot;, &quot;but&quot; or even &quot;So&quot; for informality. But doing it repeatedly and relentlessly irritates me no end. Listening to a series of sentences beginning with &quot;so&quot; makes one feel they&#039;ve missed something. As though the speaker is summing up something they&#039;ve already said or are halfway through a sentence and the listener has missed the beginning.I&#039;m trying to spot a pattern with this one. It seems more based on age and gender than it does geography. The general pattern on Pointless is that under thirties do it almost universally, with the occasional happy exception (like the two nice Irish boys who got voted off in the first round of both their shows this week). In the over 30 age bracket, women seem far more likely to do it than men. The people who are better at the highbrow questions don&#039;t do it. And if one of the couples does it, their pair invariably does it as well.What does this all mean? Who knows. But I&#039;m still skipping the first round.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 244592, member: 23"] I love my [I]Pointless[/I], but the contestants on this series are the absolute worst for my other current gripe: the trend of beginning sentences with "so". Some days I just can't watch the first round when we're meeting the contestants. They typically go like this: I'm all for occasionally beginning sentences occasionally with "and", "but" or even "So" for informality. But doing it repeatedly and relentlessly irritates me no end. Listening to a series of sentences beginning with "so" makes one feel they've missed something. As though the speaker is summing up something they've already said or are halfway through a sentence and the listener has missed the beginning. I'm trying to spot a pattern with this one. It seems more based on age and gender than it does geography. The general pattern on [I]Pointless[/I] is that under thirties do it almost universally, with the occasional happy exception (like the two nice Irish boys who got voted off in the first round of both their shows this week). In the over 30 age bracket, women seem far more likely to do it than men. The people who are better at the highbrow questions don't do it. And if one of the couples does it, their pair invariably does it as well. What does this all mean? Who knows. But I'm still skipping the first round. [/QUOTE]

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