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I was watching a video and they were talking about filler words uh is a filler word when you say uh you're kind of like searching for a word uh filler word and people use these different filler words at different times so like I said uh is a filler word and it's knowing what you need to say but you're searching for the word that's when when people will go uh you're searching right um is a little different um is a holding pattern it's trying to work out the direction you want to go in that conversation and like people will say they might say oh that you know that looks like chicken or something like that that's fine that's a different way of using it but when you say something for example I was at like the library yesterday no you weren't like at the library yesterday you were at the library yesterday but that's another filler word but you could say you know that looks like a brick and it's a cinder block now that's different um but we hear the word like often as a filler word in today's society it can be annoying as fuck you know every generation had their own words so you know don't get too tied up over it right as folks these days can't even complete a sentence without using like exactly and that's what I was talking about and it can be annoying it can be like annoying right if you have to say like why not I'd much rather hear a pause like if somebody were to say that it's like annoying why not just go it's like annoying you don't sound incoherent when you eliminate the word like but I guess people don't really notice or care and I wonder if it's the product of the dumbing down of society you know what do you guys think I found it interesting because you know all of us use you know those those I just use one right there you know you know it's like um it's a it's a it's a holding pattern word you know trying to work out the direction you want to go in the conversation most of us use you know or uh or um but I think many of us try to limit how often we say those words right being a psychology major and studying psychology I find it fascinating you know the words that we use why we say what we say why do we do what we do this is one of the things Ali catches me all the time if I hear a certain idiosyncrate phrase that just like you can bet your bottom dollar right where did that come from well it came from the 1920s 1930s during the great depression crash of the stock market money was tight it better be a sure bet if you can bet your bottom dollar and that's where that came from and that's the kind of thing I find interesting is expressions like that etymologies of words that you know the origin of how this word came about even people's names the origin of people's names right some of our children can't read cursive that's true and if they can't read it they sure certainly can't write it definitely dumbing down of the following generations making them dependent on electronics I agree I agree but a lot of people won't admit that it's it's not something easily admittable too because they don't realize they're even doing it when they're doing it I think a lot of us will use like I said certain words we will use and I do say you know occasionally but I try to limit that and I try to limit my arms and uh but I'm guilty of all that too it seems like the way they talked back you know in the early I said it you know again back in the early 1900s they had a finer control of linguistics of the use of language and it sounded more intelligent hey baby there you are you know when you you say you know that's the start of a sentence though so it's not actually you know the filler thing where does y'all fit into all of this that's a good question I never looked into that depends whereabouts in the sentence it is high y'all is the start of and it's a welcome hi y'all um or y'all so I think I think it's just saying you all isn't it so it's maybe not a filler word it doesn't what doesn't bother me is when people say all y'all I and I realize how redundant that is all of you all all y'all I just find it I don't know I just kind of find find it kind of silly but it doesn't bother me the way people use that word like I think people need to take more time to think before I speak I totally love this and I totally agree it's okay to have silence in between and during a conversation while somebody's gathering their thoughts and figuring out what they want to say I'm totally cool with that but some people think that the conversation has to constantly flow it doesn't I'm with you on that I'm glad you guys found that interesting at least we feel is about feeling each other with the energy you know when you pause a little bit you know and the other thing is when you've got somebody who talks a lot and somebody who doesn't really you know that everybody needs to pause a little bit because it's the art of conversation so that other people can join in and interject with it otherwise you can't it's not a flow of everybody nobody gets a chance so you're right you're right I agree with you as well Linda makes a good point how about double negatives when people say something like I didn't do nothing here's the prime example of a double negative in music and it was like a number one song on a number one album it was by Pink Floyd and you guys have all heard the song we don't need no education and all these people are singing along with it but it's a double negative and what it actually means is we need to be educated it's so redundant but people dug it and it became a we don't need no education do not know so that do not is one negative no education is another one so they cancel each other which means yeah we that's what a double negative is two negatives cancel each other and it becomes you know you just remove the negatives from the sentence and you have what the meaning is we don't need no education is we need education I always always always had it the opposite way around I I thought it was because I obviously didn't know that principle here's another here's another one that is interesting too and for the longest time I was guilty of doing this I would misuse the words you me for example me and Tom went to the creek the other day no it's Tom and I went to the creek and it's all you have to do on that situation is remove the other person I went to the creek yesterday and you know how to say that and it's always the other person first followed by you or the other people followed by you I corrected a friend of mine Bob Wong who said yeah me and me and Dara are going to the the movies tonight I said no it's Dara Darlene and I are going to him he goes no because I'm more important I um I'm I definitely don't do things on the politically correct thing yeah and I'd hate to criticize me you know to every single thing be criticized and I know I'm I don't do that to you no we don't um not at all no yeah but uh yeah this is just for conversation