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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?
Modern Wisdom
The Negative Effects of Filler Words on Speech
Most of the things that we think of as bad speech are actually not bad at all. It's just sort of social historical accident that we don't like them. So with an, a lot of times we do associate them with hesitancy or uncertainty. And it's true they do signal the fact that someone is working through things. But is that a bad thing? I don't want someone to just spout off, you know, incoherent stuff because they're not thinking it through.
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