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To: Edwarda who wrote (1783)	1/21/1999 6:14:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 4710

Edwarda: the version that irritates me is the following: "You know what I'm saying?" There must be some sort of linguistic or speech term for those "fillers" that people often stick into their conversations. I hear many conversations punctuated with "huh?", "y'know?", "see?" and so forth. It does get annoying after a while. The public speaking organization "Toastmasters" has a system to stop people from saying "ah" or "uh" during their talks. Someone counts the number of times the speaker says it and they are fined a certain amount of money for each one. Jack