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Old December 30, 2016, 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Glen View Post
For those of us who speak slowly they're useful for keeping impatient people (known as sentence-finishers) from interrupting us before we're done speaking.
But I hear people do this the most when making speeches or presentations of some type, where no one would be interrupting them. If someone is standing in front of a group of people, making a speech, like the President does, no one will be interrupting them, if they don't use those filler words.

I could see in normal conversation, but in speeches it has to be different.
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