That is quite different-I can accept THAT. But in that line, I'd much prefer "Um". To me, "So how've you been?" appears more appropriate than "So it's so humid out". .
It's not just English. Many European languages will use and or thus or well to sort of ease into the conversation. So, um, now you know.
This is great stuff! I’m paraphrasing the great Norm Crosby who told this on the old short-lived TV game show, Can You Top This? It was hosted by Wink Martindale, circa 1970. I loved that program. The regular comedians were all such talented joke tellers! But here’s the joke as I remember it hearing it once at the age of eleven… I needed some new shirts, so my wife sent me to JC Penney’s. She said they’re having a sale. Look for the shirts with “celanese polyester.” So I drive over to JC Penney’s and I’m looking at piles of shirts everywhere. There’s a dozen tables loaded with shirts, and they’re all on sale! And she wants me to look for celanese polyester. I see cotton blend, I see silk shirts, nylon shirts, but I’m not seeing any celanese polyester. I’m going out of my mind and I’m about to walk out when I see a sales clerk folding shirts a half a dozen tables over. I didn’t know what I was doing, so I called out to him, pointing to the table next to me, I said, “Hey! Are they celanese?!” He said, “No, they’re giving them away!”
I hope your Grammar didn't hear that!(Grandma). You say they were "Gents", eh? Well, THAT didn't go over well. These days, I see we hear "so" much more offen than "um". Whatever happened to "Uh"?
