Practice freestyle rap for improved flow control.
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Yeah nah. Check the ex-Aussie PM “Bob Hawke”. It has it’s place. When a person is making noise, it’s harder for opposition to interrupt.
“When you start, you know, like, ummm, talking, like you know, like this” then you’ll not sound so smart. But check a few clips of Bob Hawke to see how umms and errrs can be quite a useful vocal tool too.
I suspect that filler words are nothing more than a tool, so it’s all really down to context. Who is doing the umming? This is important!
Also, online I use filler because I think it helps set a context that would normally be pretty evident otherwise in face-to-face conversations. Easy to forget how much we communicate beyond just words.
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There are a few fillers I use to avoid a stutter word. Uh/Ah is a good prelude to I, and th for example. I’d rather sound a little dumb than stutter my way through a thought.
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Where this really struck me was reading my own first couple of deposition transcripts. I thought I had been fairly articulate in my responses, but when I read it back with every um, ah and like faithfully recorded, I felt like a dolt. Fixed that pronto.
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Trump’s vocabulary is small enough that it doesn’t take much time to search through. When he does, his filler words are repetition of words or his stock phrases: “It’s going to be very, very… very beautiful.” “Believe me. Believe me.”
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A long time ago I was told that this was a rude word for certain feminine anatomy in Turkish.
There are many roads to giving a particular language group an unreasonable level of deference.
[Drives off in a huff to Spain in my Nova]
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I think he also likes saying, “Oh, and this is SO special.”
Wait. So you rehearse using filler words… to sound less rehearsed? 
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Basically … yes. Our talks are supposed to sound “conversational” and not like we’re lecturing the guests. Even though I’m totally lecturing the guests.
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<breaking news!!!> To be thin eat less. To have beautiful nails, don’t bite them. To have healthy lungs, quit smoking. To get stronger, work out. To play the flute, blow at one end and move your fingers up and down the outside (next week: how to be an amateur gynacologist).
Useless advice is useless.
Monty Python still rules.
Has anyone told Justin Trudeau about this?
I can’t stand listening to him talk because of the number of ahhhs that end up in his speech. I appreciate that he is trying not to talk himself into a deeper hole, but a silent pause between phrases would annoy me less.
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