So Now

[Mark Mandel]

I hear that "Now" as a discourse marker, pleonastic to be sure, marking the
onset of a new item.

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On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> Used seemingly for the same purpose as "so" by virtually every TV
> newscaster I hear (but, like Jon Lighter, I don't listen to Fox) is
> the useless, uninformative, and time-wasting beginning of sentence
> "now".  Now, has anyone written about that phenomenon?
>
> Joel
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> At 5/22/2010 01:59 AM, Paul Frank wrote:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/22iht-currents.html?scp=2&sq=so&st=cse
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