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Originally Posted by Datura
 Lol, yup. I think catchphrases like that are a hallmark of teenybopperishness.
 I use it when I have something that I want to imply but not quite say. Like, "There's a huge mess in the living room, but my back hurts, and um, yeah...." I'd like for someone to step in and make an inference and I don't have to say "Could you clean up the mess for the millionth time??" (Which is happening lots to my poor husband, lol) Its a teeny bit passive aggressive, I know, but hey, um, yeah... Sometimes it just comes out that way. |
that. I think "so, um, yeah" might be annoying partly because it can be used in that very passive-agressive sort of way. It's almost like whoever says it is passing along that information and is now done with it-- out of their hands, so to speak."Mom, the cat threw up, so um yeah" could be translated as "I told you about it and that's all I'm doing-- passing the buck on to you so that you can clean it up."
It's basically adding a hidden request at the end of the sentence for someone else to adress the issue at hand, as the poster above noted; even at the end of a phone message, "so um yeah" means, "so call me back, of course!" That hidden request/ demand would drive anyone crazy after awhile, in addition to sounding silly.
