Ahoy ye Scurvy Langlubbers
Once again, I have refined the English language. Prepare yourself for the spiffyness of my latest creation: 'soo'.
In the sentence "The mutant wombats are so evil." the word 'so' is used differently than it is in the sentence "the mutant wombats escaped, so we should probably run like crazed gophers and pray they dont eat our spleen."
In one case the word is used to exaggerate a property, and in the other case it's used to indicate a causal/conditional kind of relationship. In the case where it exaggerates a property, it should be spelled 'soo', which would be orthogonal with the distinction between 'to' and 'too'.
After I shared this discovery with Ainalda, he informed me that his ConLang group has been endevouring to come up with a word to describe the linguistically unimaginative. I suggested 'langlubber'.
Tags: language
Posted on 2005-03-030 comments
