{"id":58104,"date":"2017-06-26T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=58104"},"modified":"2017-06-09T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T18:38:39","slug":"uncommonumlikeknowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2017\/uncommonumlikeknowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon\u2026Um\u2026Like\u2026Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/snippets-word-game?source=blog_uk062617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58184 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/46240_snippets-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"545\" \/><\/a>Even the most polished orators do it sometimes. Some people seem to do it constantly. Mostly, we don\u2019t even notice it: interrupting ourselves with an \u201cuh\u201d or \u201cum.\u201d The basic function of these words is obvious: to give the speaker a moment to collect his or her thoughts before continuing. This verbal spam can also signal to the listener that the speaker has more to say, so wait for it. \u201cUh,\u201d \u201cum,\u201d and the like have no inherent meaning or definition, but ironically, there\u2019s actually an official linguistic term for the phenomena: <em>speech disfluencies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even more specifically, among various kinds of speech disfluencies, meaningless mini-interjections are simply known by the straightforward term <em>filler.<\/em> Interestingly, different languages or dialects have different familiar fillers: American English favors \u201cuh\u201d and \u201cum,\u201d while the British tend to prefer \u201cer\u201d or \u201cerm.\u201d The Spanish sometimes interrupt themselves with \u201cehhh,\u201d and the Chinese use \u201cn\u00e8i ge,\u201d essentially \u201cthat one.\u201d Over time, filler can become more elaborate and some has literal meaning, like \u201clike\u201d and \u201cso.\u201d Recently, it seems those who want to sound confident with their filler say \u201cI mean,\u201d which is arguably only slightly more meaningful than, um, just getting on with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/snippets-word-game?source=blog_uk062617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snippets Word Game<\/a> | $25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the most polished orators do it sometimes. Some people seem to do it constantly. Mostly, we don\u2019t even&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":58107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58185,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104\/revisions\/58185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}