Talk:so yesterday

so yesterday
This is kind of interesting because we don't have "yesterday" as an adjective, and I suppose you couldn't just say something was "yesterday". It does seem very much a composite construction, though; I can imagine someone saying that a music track is "so eighties", or a painting is "so Picasso". (I bet there's a grammatical term for this, but I don't know it.) Equinox ◑ 06:11, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was wondering about this entry as well. I suppose the forms are contractions of "so characteristic of ...". SemperBlotto (talk) 06:17, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * That reminds me of a commercial here in the US a while back where a teenager says "that was sooo 15 minutes ago" as if she were talking about the last ice age. The construction can be used with any time in the past with the same meaning, and with just about any time/place/person/style/etc. with a somewhat different meaning. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:38, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Here’s a somewhat older example that in my opinion shows that this is a property of and that  isn't idiomatic. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 22:00, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * For that matter, it could be interpreted as forcing nominals to act as adjectives by putting them in a syntactic context where only an adjective could be used (in this case as a predicate)- think about phrases such as "that dress is you". If so, there's no real lexical place to hang this, except perhaps the copula. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:49, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Maybe wiktionary should have the syntax for some composite constructions, like so %%NOUN%% with explanation that %%NOUN%% is always naming some time or period in the past? so last year is actually used even more than so yesterday. 24.5.143.190 23:31, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * In fact, it can even be used with times in the future: google "that's so next year" and see the examples. - -sche (discuss) 22:06, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the use of so forces it to be understood as an adjective, as without it, it would carry a totally different meaning Leasnam (talk) 01:59, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The trouble with including the syntax at a special entry is that no one is likely to find such content except at so, not that we are very good at including such content. Nor is a time period the only possibility. For example, so inside baseball has 102 (raw) hits at Google Books. We could make the more common of these hard redirects to a specific appropriate definition at so. DCDuring TALK 18:46, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * html has keywords meta tag that tells search engines what the search terms are. But this is probably too much of a stretch for wiktionary. I came across several idioms that are "flexible" in that they can accept a variety of words inside of them, but these things aren't describable in wiktionary. 24.5.143.190 21:25, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
 * We use "one", "someone", "something", and their possessives as placeholders because they are accepted, ie, usable by normal dictionary users. We have tried to have Appendices with snowclones, a type of construction, but it doesn't seem to have gained much traction. DCDuring TALK 21:54, 22 June 2016 (UTC)


 * I agree that this isn't idiomatic. It also doesn't seem to be exclusively a property of "so", since one could say "that's very last year" as well as "that's so last year". One could even delete the copula: "What do you think of the dress?" "So last year." / "Very last year." / "Very you." / etc. IMO, it's covered by the existing entries for "you", "last"+"year", etc, and the understanding that "...characteristic of..." is implied. Delete. - -sche (discuss) 22:06, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree with User:Leasnam that certain adverbs and force nouns to be treated as adjectives in this way. I don't think that the list is very long (so, too, very, kind of, a bit, somewhat, quite, etc), though the expression seems to be most useful as hyperbole, using the more extremal degree adverbs. If the list of words that do this is long, then I suppose we should leave it to the grammarians. DCDuring TALK 23:35, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Agree with -sche. Actually, this is not a function of adverbs so much as a function of nouns, which in colloquial English can be used adjectivally whenever one pleases. That's very "English language". Ƿidsiþ 08:56, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
 * This analysis is spot on. Ergo, delete. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:59, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Deleted. — SMUconlaw (talk) 12:38, 8 September 2016 (UTC)