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Subject:RE: Grammar: "So" as a modifier From:"Secara, Maggie" <MSecara -at- sjm -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:13:12 -0700
This is yet another sense. You could easily have that same conversartion
with "too" instead of "so". (We are, too!) I have never known why that
"too" is an affirmative, but it is. But it's different from "We are so
in trouble."
>
> Al: We are not lost.
>
> Meg: We are *so* lost.
>
> Al: Are not!
>
> Meg: Are SO!
>
> "We are so lost" = "We are totally lost"
>
> I don't think "very" fits with being lost.
>
>
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