Sentences with phrase «other filler words»

Not exact matches

«Not as nutritious» is a separate issue that is of concern because of labeling: consumers assume that «100 % Ground Beef» contains muscle tissue and fat, or in other words, ground cuts of meat they might purchase whole — not added connective tissue as filler (essentially gelatin, as I posted above.)

In other words, you might think you're getting 30 grams of high quality, complete whey protein in every scoop, when in reality you're only getting 15 grams along with a bunch of nearly worthless filler.

In other, words it's a filler game and I think in that role it largely succeeds.

Their hypothesis was that anxiety will increase verbal filler rates only if it interrupts the automatic flow of speech by making speakers self - conscious about how they sound.41 In other words, thinking about speaking might make people «choke,» in much the same way that any conscious attention to a skilled performance can disrupt, and limit, that performance.42 Choking, in turn, would make people use more uhs and ums.

Study subjects asked to «talk» their way through mazes used more verbal fillers when confronted with mazes that could be navigated using multiple routes.33 Conversely, mazes with a single path (and fewer choices) produced fewer fillers.34 But the maze study produced another interesting result: When study subjects were told they could use only four words to talk their way through the maze (left, right, up, down), they began to use more verbal fillers, even when describing simple mazes.35 Researchers posited that the «lexical suppression» created by limiting speakers to four words triggered a stopping and starting of the speech apparatus that prevented speakers from developing a normal speech rhythm.36 Thus, while verbal fillers are a mark of task complexity, they also appear where, «for some other reason, the flow of speech is disrupted.»

Virtually everyone uses verbal fillers, though the frequency can vary greatly from person to person.18 A study of one language database showed that speakers produced between 1.2 and 88.5 uhs and ums for every thousand words, with a median filler rate of 17.3 per thousand words.19 Other databases show anywhere from three to twenty uhs and ums for every thousand words, placing uh and um thirty - first in a ranking of most commonly used utterances, just ahead of or and just after not.20 A British study showed that, contrary to popular expectations, the use of verbal fillers does not indicate a lack of education or manners; instead, the use of uh and um increases with education and socioeconomic status, a finding with particular implications for the legal profession.21 Older people use more uhs and ums than younger people, and, curiously, men consistently use verbal fillers more often than women — a finding that has been replicated across several studies.22 Women, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparts.23

If you're a suspect of using filler words, buzzwords and other terms that are known as filler language — you want to try and change that.