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#2 (permalink) Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:12 am "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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Hello Cantik,
I would call it an intensifier, in that context.
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#3 (permalink) Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:33 am "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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Thank you, MrP. So I was partly correct, in my assumption. :) _________________ Thou shalt not use yours to make the whole world jealous. |
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#4 (permalink) Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:55 am "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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Yes, I think so; it implies "to such an extent!", "so much!".
All the best,
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#5 (permalink) Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:34 pm "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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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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#6 (permalink) Sat Jun 28, 2008 23:27 pm "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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| Or a little poetic? (to add "so") |
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#7 (permalink) Sun Jun 29, 2008 16:11 pm "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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I thought about that too, Haihao. I think it's a little bit of the both. _________________ Thou shalt not use yours to make the whole world jealous. |
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SiCantikManis I'm here quite often ;-)

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#8 (permalink) Sun Jun 29, 2008 22:15 pm "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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| Haihao wrote: |
| Or a little poetic? (to add "so") |
It turns up in one of Shakespeare's better known sonnets:
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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.
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(Though in a modern context, it might have the flavour of an easy rhyme.)
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#9 (permalink) Sun Jun 29, 2008 22:35 pm "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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| MrPedantic wrote: |
Yes, I think so; it implies "to such an extent!", "so much!".
All the best,
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What would it mean here?
Cal: Do you love me, Mal?
Mal: Yes, very much so. |
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#10 (permalink) Mon Jun 30, 2008 0:42 am "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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| very much so = that's right, and very much (I love you). |
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#11 (permalink) Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:18 am "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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I agree. _________________ Thou shalt not use yours to make the whole world jealous. |
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#12 (permalink) Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:13 am "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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| 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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#13 (permalink) Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:11 am "I love you so" vs "I love you so much" |
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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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| meaning of a phrase "he has to have it up me open..." | The train runs by the second. |