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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?

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The Different Types of Words

There's a debate in linguistic circles about whether um and uh are words or not. They act like utterances that aren't necessarily governed by the same rules as words. Most proto Indo-European languages have something along the form of or um, and usually they differ by the vowel. The sound itself actually it's a really interesting question because if we look at most languages, most of them have sort of a vowel like filled pause such as English has.

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