There is no other excuse for doing it. And reflecting the new electronic media environment, print media sometimes include the fillers too, no longer covering for the speaker in this sense, and perhaps as a form of criticism or mockery, but also with the effect of presenting fillers as a normal and accepted element of communication.”
"We can't do that."
They prefer more conversational formats such as interviews, and public figures by necessity need to rely on fillers in those kinds of formats.
They have an answer for everything. To be fair, there is something else to be considered here: As the private lives of public figures are increasingly out in the open, so, too, are their words increasingly uncensored -- for better or worse. They take up time and add no value.” U.S. President Barack Obama addresses his year-end news conference in the White House briefing room in Washington, Dec. 20, 2013. As people develop a speech pattern over time -- and unless they make a concentrated effort to avoid them -- the filler words become normal, to the point that they do not even know they are using them. No real answer. Just like some people over use saying "I think". When a user injects "You know" into every paragraph, chances are they are attempting to dominate the listener because the speaker lacks confidence that they can explain details. They're forceful in presenting their own arguments, but they're not open to your ideas.
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Kooyeen, thanks for the link -- I liked the Wiki article about fillers in various languages.
They might still say to you, “I don’t know if that fits for us.” In that case, it’s probably the case that you need to find someone with the answers. “Someone who uses fillers comes off as more informal than intended, creating a dissonance.” “There is no one reason for [the use of fillers], but nervousness is certainly one reason, which goes hand in hand with lack of confidence,” said Dr. Lance Strate, professor of communication and media studies and associate chair for undergraduate studies at Fordham University in New York. They impair your delivery by diminishing your ability to align pacing, pauses and vocal variation to content. Until I point that out to them, they are not conscious of it at all.” Former President Ronald Reagan (nicknamed The Great Communicator) was widely mocked for frequently beginning replies to questions with the ever-popular filler “Well...”That infamous interview, with the Times' Nicholas Confessore and David M. Halbfinger, included the following incomprehensible piece of verbosity from Caroline: “So I think in many ways, you know, we want to have all kinds of different voices, you know, representing us, and I think what I bring to it is, you know, my experience as a mother, as a woman, as a lawyer, you know, I've been an education activist for the last six years here, and, you know, I've written seven books – two on the Constitution, two on American politics. One must also consider the context – especially for teachers, professors and lecturers, whose jobs demand they speak in public, often for long durations, leading them to “often make extensive use of fillers to provide space for thinking about what they're going to say, and sometimes that can be a habit as well, but the point is that it in no way is a sign of a poor vocabulary.” Strate further noted that speech used to be taught in the public schools, which combined lessons in proper pronunciation and enunciation, fluency of language, avoiding fillers, and also speaking with lucidity and logic.
Strate doesn’t think the use of fillers necessarily spells a death knell for language and communication skills.