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Kooyeen wrote: Hi, I'm just wondering if there's something strange with that "so"... I hear it very often in negative sentences like "Oh my God, that's so not funny!" My impression is that the use of "so + not + adjective/description" may be of Valley Girl origin. It's a fairly new usage. Also,...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: 'This is the watch as I lost' -- this sentence is false. No, it is dialect. In some dialects as = that ------- as : THAT -- used to introduce a noun clause and now dialect except in certain negative expressions with know, say, or see that...