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Re:The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues' Verbal F... by sneak on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @03:19PM (#43709293)
Why are filler words bad? Why do we need to be trained not to use them?
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Re:The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues' Verbal F... by physicles on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:38PM (#43711861)
People in this thread point out that filler words make communication less effective, primarily by being distracting.
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Re:The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues' Verbal F... by drekipus on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:39PM (#43711863)
if you've got nothing to say, you're just adding noise.
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Re:The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues' Verbal F... by sneak on Thursday April 17, 2025 @05:54AM (#43714765)
Why do we care that much about the SNR of spoken words? Language is inherently quite redundant.
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Re:The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues' Verbal F... by drekipus on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:03PM (#43723149)
Redundancy is still "signal"

I don't think it's an argument of efficiency but rather the avoidance of noise.

The "ums" isn't redundant, it's not repeating or decorating the conversation. It's filler like static. Stops people from filling the gaps with their own thoughts

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