Thread: So...It makes sense, but am I wrong?
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Old 07-04-2009, 08:43 AM
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The word "so" is also used in English to mean "in that way". However, I have mostly run across it in older materials. Here is one way it could be used currently,

"May I have the last brownie?"
"Please, do so."

It is pretty stilted.

This was interesting to contemplate. I hadn't realized that people were reading "so" in the passage as an intensifier. Thank you for posting your thoughts.
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