What’s the purpose of filler words?

Are filler words like um,like, and you know a sign of poor speaking skills, or do they serve a purpose?

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unbotheredmuse:

I like people with emotional and intellectual depth, speaking so passionately about everything they believe in is honestly so beautiful.

Speaking is also a form of action. That is one venture. The other is: We start something. We weave our strand into a network of relations. What comes of it we never know…And now I would say that this venture is only possible when there is trust in people. A trust—which is difficult to formulate but fundamental—in what is human in all people. Otherwise such a venture could not be made.

- Hannah Arendt, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

neurowonderful:

You are a young child, and in this universe, the large majority of people communicate by writing words on paper. Unfortunately for you, your natural method of communication is by speaking.

When you speak, no one seems to understand what you are saying. They seem confused, embarrassed, and even angry when sounds come out of your mouth. Your mother publically laments your inability to communicate like the majority. The older you get, the more obvious your difference in communication becomes.

People begin to shush you, place their fingers over your mouth, or even duct-tape your mouth shut when you speak. When you enter kindergarten you spend entire school days being taught how not to laugh, exclaim in delight, speak your teacher’s name to get their attention or blurt out answers to questions vocally.

Your parents and therapists spend hours and hours pushing a pen into your hand and forcing your hand to the paper, withholding praise and affection until you do. But while writing comes so easily and quickly to everyone else, you find it nearly impossible on your best days, and an insurmountable challenge on your worst.

Along with a different natural method of communication, you have a motor disorder that affects your ability to hold a pen and write. While other children your age are scrawling out long lines of chatty dialogue, blowing through page after page of paper, it takes you six months just to eke out the letters of your name.

But you try, and you work at it— as if you have any other option. You learn to stay quiet, to not laugh or sob aloud, to put pen to paper instead of expressing yourself with your vocal cords. You find a system that works for you and your motor disorder, and although it takes longer, you find that you can communicate by carrying around index cards and using one card per word.

This means that you are constantly carrying around a backpack weighed down with packs and packs of index cards, which tires you out. Sometimes you drop your cards or lose a few, and often people will get impatient watching you lay out your lines of words to make sentences and walk away before you can answer their question. For no reason that you can understand, people can get offended if they can tell that you’re re-using your cards. There are still some days where forming letters is too difficult, or the wrong words come out.

But by the time you’re a teenager you’ve done it— you can, in your parents’ words, “speak properly”, and your parents are thrilled. Never mind that, out of ease, you often reuse the same cards over and over, even if those words don’t exactly apply. Never mind that you’ll answer “no” because it’s easier to write than “yes,” or that you’ll avoid answering at all because pulling out your index cards is such a pain.

Never mind that other people’s pens move so fast across their notebooks and their words are printed so small and close together that you struggle to understand half of what anyone says to you. You can print at all, and that’s enough.

You don’t know that there are other ways. You don’t know that some people like you speak by typing onto a tablet until one day you see the technology, featured on a sappy news story about a young non-writing child, a child like you once were.

The realization stuns you. No more fumbling with index cards, watching in despair as they catch in the wind and scatter while people look on in pity or (worst of all) laugh! No more forcing your hand to squeeze each and every hard-won letter out of a pen! With that technology, you could have entire conversations, order your own meal, ace a job interview!

When you explain the technology to your parents and beg for the chance to finally, truly express yourself, they deny you outright. No, your mother scrawls slowly, that’s for people who can’t write at all. You can write just fine! You almost seem normal now! We didn’t pay for thirty hours of therapy a week for six years for you to throw down your pen and give up.

I will be speaking at the SAVE AMERICA RALLY tomorrow on the Ellipse at 11AM Eastern. Arrive early — doors open at 7AM Eastern. BIG CROWDS! https://t.co/k4blXESc0c

-Some random staffer (possibly Dan Scavino), on behalf of President Donald J. Trump

Our Analysis

There is a 1% chance that Donald Trump wrote this tweet himself.

Word probabilities: 61/38 (Trump/Staff)
Time probabilities: 0/99 (Trump/Staff)
Metadata probabilities: 82/17 (Trump/Staff)
Posted at: Tue Jan 5 17:43:07 2021 EST [Link]
Tweet Source: Twitter for iPhone
Score override for media

The most informative terms in this tweet were:
speaking (Trump, 3.3:1), america (Other, 1.5:1), rally (Other, 1.5:1), tomorrow (Other, 3.8:1), open (Trump, 1.4:1), big (Trump, 8.2:1), ! (Trump, 1.3:1)

A computer sees the following emotions in this tweet (NRC):
{‘joy’: 1, 'positive’: 1, 'trust’: 1, 'anticipation’: 2}

Grade level of this tweet (Flesch-Kincaid): 5.6

Notone - UniTalk Dictionary.

A note that doesn’t falls in the right place.

Might be a good feeling that doesn’t falls right and with a little bit of tweaking it rides a horse

Examples:

*I woke up with a notone and can’t focus today.

*I like what you say, however, i can help you tune the notone

Source - Arielism

UniTalk, a figure of speech to describe knowledge, spiritual terms, and experiences in a language that intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society, by reconstructing language protocol for the creation of a Universal language.

me: theres never enough time in the day

also me: *has rewatched the entirety of steven universe twice this year and it’s only May*

all my fave fandom blogs deactivating one by one whenever I take social media breaks and I come back online like

I’m begging you guys to put age in ur bio… Or if you’re uncomfortable with that then at least the age range. I keep wanting to follow people on here and deciding not to because I can’t find ages and I’m not interested in accidentally following minors or interacting with minors without knowing that I’m doing so. I’ve checked out many blogs over the last few weeks and months and just had to pass up so many new blogs bc I don’t know if you’re a child or an adult.

Maybe it’s just me but if I see no age in bio, I assume you’re a child. I do completely think children should not be forced to advertise the fact that they’re a child. But just know that (and maybe it’s just me but also maybe not?) because of that I’m just going to always assume ‘no age in bio’ means this is a child and while it’s ok to converse respectfully with that user bc children don’t need to be quarantined, I’d not follow their blog, because I’m an adult.

Exceptions can be made when a blog is like, strictly a “professional” space (for example, an artist who only posts art). but more often than that, blogs are personal and revealing things, and I don’t think adults should have a front row seat and parasocial relationship with children on that sort of level with such a veil of anonymity.

All this to say, I don’t think (broadly speaking) that adults should follow kids’ blogs, and if you don’t put ur age in your bio I’m assuming ur a kid. So if ur an adult on this website pls god pls just say so

Blog I follow: *posts about a media I dislike and REALLY do not wanna see on my dash and doesn’t tag it*

Me: ok that’s fine it’s just art it’s not like it’s hurting me right and maybe it’s not their new obsession or anything maybe it’s a brief interest

Blog: *continues posting about Thing*

Me:

solá and I scream at each other in our messages to convey our love

BEL DNI WITH WHAT IM ABOUT TO POST I MEAN IT

LUCIOOOO

Muriel ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

whore central doesn’t love me anymore looking for someone to love me now applications are open

praying that the media finally leaves greek/roman mythos alone, I, as a pagan, am tired of seeing the inaccuracies

teddy.

ali I have something to tell u

where’s ali ( ali that keishy knows irl)