What Do You Have for Breakfast?

Many of these verbal fillers are what linguists and ton experts call discourse markers, or verbal pauses. So in most cases, they're serving as a moment for your mouth basically to catch up to what your brain is working on. In some cases, that function is to tell your listener that you 're still talking and that you don't want to be interrupted yet. If there's one breed of person who seem to use very little filler it would be lawyers.