Become famous—but not for your verbal tics.
On “How I Met Your Mother” the character Robin, anchor of an early-morning talk show, thinks her show is doing really well because a lot of people watch it, including students of her friend Ted. In actuality…
College kids: “We watch it for the drinking game. You have to drink every time she says But, um…“
I never thought verbal tics and filler words could be the subject of sitcom tv, but they do a pretty good job with it. Link to episode; start watching around the 9-minute mark.
(My filler word is like but I’ve gotten better at using it less, thanks to the Ah-Counter at our toastmasters meetings pointing out how often I’m using it.)
N. Mike has pointed out that the use of the word “so” is often used at the beginning of people’s sentences as a filler or something of the sort (i.e.: “So I heard that…” He points it out everytime I use it as such. But, it is not just me. Now that I am more aware of it, I see it overused by pretty much everyone! So…something else to think of when formulating a sentence.
Danielle
February 2, 2010 at 3:28 pm