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#506 - Elizabeth Stokoe - The Science Of Analysing Conversations

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What's the Difference Between Silence and Filler?

i read a blog post not long ago that was talking about the relative interpretation of people who either used silences or ums and filler words in between, on whether they were seen as more or less intelligent. Do have you ever looked at this stuff? I haven't studied it, but it is something that maybe i should start analyzing. You can show a lot of mess and repair error, speech perturbations, ums and ars and everything in pretty much anyone's conversation. So, ye, language changes all the time. And i think the important thing is to try not to put any kind of value judgment on this idea that saying like has something to do with that person's

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