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Re:Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per minute by rprasad on Monday March 12, 2012 @06:44PM (#3696052)
My high school AP English teacher deducted a full 1% from presentation assignments for every "um" and "like" (except where the use of "like" was contextually appropriate).

Nobody got higher than a D on the first presentation. Nobody got lower than a B after that.

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