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• dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All good. Looks like my comment got axed for some reason, even though I’ve intended it as a positive critique.

  I’ve noticed that people like using “I mean” as a filler or figure of speech. But when you keep seeing it over and over again, especially multiple times in a single comment, or in a comment chain, it’s really noticable.

  I used to say “uhm” out loud a lot while forming sentences. It’s a placeholder to give your mind a pause to catch up what you are trying to say. A speech therapist highlighted this to me and got me to slowly phase it out by first squelching it and just internalizing the “uhm”, then completely getting rid of it and rely on silent pauses instead. It helped me realize these speechpatterns, doesn’t matter whether they are used as a run on or a pause. And “I mean” really caught on the past few years as a faux intellectual discourse marker, so it’s extra noticable for me.

  Looks like there’s some more about its usage here:

  psychologytoday.com/…/why-i-mean-became-the-new-t…

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  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah “uhms” and the dreaded “like” are also an issue for me too. I would like to eliminate it from my vocabulary entirely. I make videos and live stream, and I notice it a lot when I watch playback. It’s pretty terrible. Did you have a hard time ridding them from your speech? I should try fixing that.

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, it was rather easy. I was only eleven years old though. The consciousness of it and the method to squelch it at first, without saying it out loud, helped a lot. The therapist really only highlighted it once for me. But it didn’t help that to get to this point I got traumatized by a whole class of vicious fifth graders laughing at me while I was reciting something in front of the class. 🙄

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      • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Damn yeah that’ll do it. Kids can be ruthless!

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