
472: Arguing for the Good in Bad English with Valerie Fridland
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The Benefits of Us and Us in Public Speaking
We don't like us and um, but they're actually beneficial in many ways. The more cognitive efforts you're putting into planning what you're going to say, the more likely or an um come up. Not only is it related to the complexity of the syntactic structure, it's also related to the familiarity, abstraction or difficulty of the vocabulary words you're choosing. A humanities lecture has many more words to search in their mental lexicon when they're coming up with a word to describe something. But when you're scientists, there's a very constrained set of terminology. Everybody uses the same word. So it's a go to its instant that neural network is really well traveled for that
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