So Now

Sat May 22 16:49:59 UTC 2010

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> So now?

  Eric

> At 5/22/2010 11:01 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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> >I hear that "Now" as a discourse marker, pleonastic to be sure, marking
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> >onset of a new item.
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> Ugh.  I hear it in second, third, etc. sentences of a single news
> item (paragraph), when it is absolutely unnecessary and has no
> connotation of chronology (as in "then" vs. "now").
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> Joel
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