Um

What is a word you feel that too many people use?

Hesitant speakers use grunty sounds as placeholders. It’s inelegant.

Worse is a habit my fellow Boomers got into of inserting “like” in mid-thought.

Our sentences flowed as smoothly as muddied molasses. “It’s (like) you know man,” we’d say incoherently.

Made the guy pausing with an “um” seem genius.

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