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The phrase "a so what" is not standard in written English and may be considered informal or colloquial
It can be used to express indifference or to question the significance of something that has been stated. Example: "You got a promotion, but honestly, a so what? It doesn't change our workload."
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Extract 11 A: So what do you think that makes friendship (10 s)?
a) So what?
For a sentence to be a sentence we need a What (the subject) and a So What (the predicate).
While such ugly, green-eyed sniping ought to be met with a shrug and a "so what?", they are crimes that might be forgiven in the good times.
Short, long and layered As I mentioned in my first post, the essence of a sentence involves the pairing of a subject with a predicate, a What and a So What, a protagonist and a story.
Absent from "Fresh Air," too, are the kind of theatrical moments that have become the stock-in-trade of interviews on TV newsmagazines: Ed Bradley executing a "60 Minutes" moment with a, "So, what you are telling me is.
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This one is actually a So-what winner.
"It's not a so-what moment for me," he replied.
In many work environments, this would qualify as a so-what moment.
This "is a so-what movie on a grand scale," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times in May.
"A smirk and a so-what attitude — an absolute lack of remorse," Thompson said.
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