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Old December 29, 2016, 05:00 PM
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A variation I hear (and use myself) on the aforementioned este is to draw out the second syllable into a long esteeeeeeeee, which seems to work even better for keeping other people from butting in.
That first syllable can be elongated, too, Glen.
I've seen it written eesteeee and eessteeee.

The word 'pos' is a variation used in Mexico. I've also seen 'pus', 'ps' and 'po' (Chile).
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Old December 29, 2016, 07:00 PM
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"Pos", "pus" and "ps" are very often heard in Mexico, but they're associated with uneducated speech, so it's uncomfortable to hear if it's not used in the right register.
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Old December 30, 2016, 12:35 AM
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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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Old December 30, 2016, 12:40 AM
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Um, it happens to, like, the best of us.

Filler words can be avoided, in all honesty, but who doesn't like to insert a little realism into our speech (and into our speeches)?
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I've probably said it before, but in the village I live in here in Tenerife, every single sentence starts with "joder" and ends with "c-o-ñ-o". These are fillers which replace capital letters and full stops (sorry - periods). Very often, the material in the sentence is missing altogether, such as the time when during the annual village fiesta the fireworks set light to the countryside, and the bomberos were heard running around shouting "joder, c-o-ñ-o" to each other.

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If it's any consolation, a vast swath of American English speakers pepper their speech with f words and mf words and sh words. It can be really dull.

I know someone who says, "it's all good" as a filler -- sometimes more than once in a sentence. I don't know what's worse, the f word or it's all good. As filler they have about the same meaning.

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