It’s facinating to see two blogs’ reactions to the same story.
The deal: a couple of research psychologists propose that “um” and “uh” aren’t exceptions thrown by human.brain.language.getWord () as Noam Chomsky theorized, but part of communications, in fact more like the spinning beachball cursor (please wait while human.brain.language.getWord () accesses the word table).
Compare and contrast Phillip Winn’s reaction of ‘ding-dong Chomsky’s dead’, and Rebecca Blood’s reaction to same.
Meanwhile, the researchers point out that while everyone is prone to “uh” and “um” in their speech, the habit is still distracting.
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