Dec 2, 2021 • 25M

EPISODE 6: A Needle Pulling Thread

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the big ambitions of the little word "so."

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Have you noticed the seemingly stratospheric rise of the word “so” in recent years? People use it not only as a conjunction or an intensifying adverb — as in “That’s so awesome!” — but also to begin or end sentences in a manner pregnant with implied meaning. So… Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield set out to determine what exactly this sort of “so” might in fac…

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