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July 23, 2030
Inteview with Michael Erard, author of the book Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean
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Mike Carruthers:
Um, ah, ya know - when you listen carefully to people speaking, you hear those three things a lot - um, ah, ya know…
Michael Erard:
That's a phenomenon called speech disfluencies and they happen because we need to plan what we're going to say next.
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