Today, my co-workers keep making fun of me because I said, “You’re very so welcome.” They say it's not proper grammar, but honestly I can’t find anything that says I’m wrong. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out that I’ve been greeting a coworker by the wrong name for six weeks. The worst part? They never corrected me because they thought it was funny, especially because it turns out to be their mom's name. FML
Today, my coworker keeps loudly saying things like, "Oh, now THIS!" If I don't ask, "What?" she pouts. If I do ask, she tells me, at length and with very bad grammar, how every one of our colleagues and partners is either stupid, rude or out to get her. FML
Today, I was so nervous introducing myself to my new team, I actually mispronounced my own name, badly, and now that’s how everyone refers to me, but again, I’m too nervous to correct anyone. It’s been a week already, so correcting them now would be extra weird. FML
Today, I mistook my boss’s "Have a good weekend!" for "How’s your weekend?" So I replied, "Great so far!" It’s Wednesday. FML
Today, I sent a thank you note after a job interview, emphasizing my accuracy at editing written reports; I misspelled the company's name. FML
Today, while messaging a possible new hire to set up an interview at my retail job, I meant to say, "Thank you for being flexible" - in regards to scheduling. Instead, it autocorrected to, "Thank you for being delicious." FML
Today, I was on a work call when my coworker made an accidental Freudian slip. Thinking I was muted, I muttered, "That’s what she said." I wasn’t muted. FML
Today, my family savagely mocked me to the point of tears, all for using "big", "fancy" words like "accommodations" and "hospitality". FML
Today, I was chatting to a co-worker, upon whom I have a serious crush. It was going really well, until he said "irregardless", as if it's actually a proper word. This grammatical abomination really ticks me off, and I actually had to fight back the urge to beat some damn sense into him. FML
Today, at work I put myself squarely in the lame / old people category when I foolishly asked out loud what FML meant. FML
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saberjpg 6
It's a redundant sentence. It should be "You're welcome" or "You're very welcome" "You're very so welcome" is wrong in structure and it's redundant. It should be "You're so very welcome". However, that is redundant as well...but at least that would be structured properly.
RichardPencil 32
You can use "so" to intensify "very," but you can't intensify "so" with "very."
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Comments (20)
LostSoul 20
Do not ever write a college paper.
raven_of_azarath 35
As a person with an English degree, there isn’t actually anything structurally wrong. Yes, it’s redundant, but so many of our idioms (such as temper tantrum) are that I don’t see that as a problem. And besides, lots of people say “so very much.” That’s even more redundant, and all OP did was take out the much. Everyone’s just freaking because that’s not how we say it. It’s like putting a contraction where it’s not normal (for example, “I want to tell you it’s” instead of “I want to tell you it is”).
Nhayaa 21
We're not saying OP shouldn't say "so very" but that "very so" is incorrect. You don't say "very so much".
BurnInDemonFire 39
Whoever gave you a degree was wrong.
DanielleinDC 34
Saying "very so" is improper grammar, as the words are out of order. Saying "so very" is redundant but technically correct.
Nhayaa 21
I'm not a native English speaker and I know the words are not in the right order...
bobsmith39 6
Just move "so" before "very" and you are fine. It is the word placement order that makes it sound off.
turnabouttrial 21
it's just kind of a cultural thing, in the same vein as "orange quick fox" sounds very strange and everyone would rather hear "quick orange fox"