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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much"



 
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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:29 am  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

Hi,

Why do people sometimes put "so" here? I have always assumed it was a contraction of "so much".

Thanks,
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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:12 am  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

Hello Cantik,

I would call it an intensifier, in that context.

Best wishes,

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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:33 am  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

Thank you, MrP. So I was partly correct, in my assumption. Smile
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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:55 am  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

Yes, I think so; it implies "to such an extent!", "so much!".

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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Sat Jun 28, 2008 13:34 pm  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

Hi Cantik,

Yes I agree with the above so there's not much to say. However I would add that I think it is quite an old fashioned saying and possibly not used in spoken English that often anymore (to add "so")
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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Sun Jun 29, 2008 0:27 am  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

Or a little poetic? (to add "so")
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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Sun Jun 29, 2008 17:11 pm  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

I thought about that too, Haihao. I think it's a little bit of the both.
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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Sun Jun 29, 2008 23:15 pm  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

Haihao wrote:
Or a little poetic? (to add "so")

It turns up in one of Shakespeare's better known sonnets:

Quote:
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on my then should make you woe.
O! if, I say, you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
But let your love even with my life decay;
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.


(Though in a modern context, it might have the flavour of an easy rhyme.)

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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Sun Jun 29, 2008 23:35 pm  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

MrPedantic wrote:
Yes, I think so; it implies "to such an extent!", "so much!".

All the best,

MrP

What would it mean here?

Cal: Do you love me, Mal?

Mal: Yes, very much so.
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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:42 am  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

very much so = that's right, and very much (I love you).
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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:18 am  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

I agree.
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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:13 am  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

Haihao wrote:
very much so = that's right, and very much (I love you).

But what does the "so" mean and how is it different from the "so" in "I love you so"?
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"I love you so" vs "I love you so much" Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:11 pm  "I love you so" vs "I love you so much"
 

very much so = very much I love you -> so = the fact (I love you)

I love you so = I love you so much -> intensifier, like in 'I am so glad to see you'.
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