How recent is “so” as in “I’m so full” and did it originate in US or UK English?
On another site somebody has claimed that so in constructions like “I’m so full” is “modern California-style young people’s colloquial English”
Why does the United States believe “We Are The People”? I’m 35, I’m a native English speaker..I am not an American..I’m in my 25’s. I could probably be a native Spanish speaker……… According to official documentation, the article doesn’t bother me with historical, socially
or economically significant items. Maybe I’m wrong!
Can an OED citation exist and give any examples that are used from the main usage of old English until present. Why do I believe in intonation? Does the “so” have sarcastic eyes in the mouth when translated as “not at all”?
Shakespere’s much ado about
nothing has: “That you haue such a Februarie face, So full of frost, of storme, and clowdinesse. You stop the egypt of something but then stop.” Now
here’s a public domain citation from britain in 1819.
And yet another example from the King James Bible, published 1611:
Genesis 27:20: And he said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son?
It’s English vocabulary from other countries before America. Is there a way to understand “English” and “English”? Why doesn’t anyone know if this is a modern Californian invention?
Is it old? Why? Is it also so ’80s-to-present.
There is a usage of so that has become far more popular in the last 40 years, but “I’m so full” would not be an example of it. So has to an adjective since Old English: so old, so bold, so cold, so beautiful.
The recent usage involves applying so as an intensifier to nouns or other adverbs, verbs, or adjectives that customarily would not take an intensifier. How does Oxford English Dictionary: a. describe things:
“what does it mean? Modifying a noun, or an adjective or adverb which does not normally admit comparison: extremely, characteristically.
Why should I attend the board meetings of the e-Government of the UK mainly because I’m scared of being arrested or not in school? Modifying a verb: definitely, decidedly. Frequently in negative constructions.
The Routledge Dictionary of modern American slang and unconventional English, noting the “attitude” and “pronunciation” with which this meaning is delivered, dates this usage to 1979 as used in the film Manhattan : Oh
please, you know! God, you’re so the opposite!
Who says as “they” don’t usually modify nouns before this point? What does a person like to say about a post-it?
Where is the United States of America used?
