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.
