https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-answer-any-question-with.html
and
https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-answer-any-question-with.html
Happily, that tic seems to have faded away. (Maybe we acquired herd immunity to it.) But another habit seemed to take over soon after: Answering every question by starting with "That's a great question." Freakonomics radio picked up on this tendency back in 2015 and the piece was recently rebroadcast, suggesting this usage is still with us - again, particularly in academia:
or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJpobK9iFBU.
Perhaps a bit of airing will send it to wherever "so" went.
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