Published on 12, July, 2020
Here's a link to the article:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65634829
Do you use any of these?
The only one I consciously use is 'so' at the beginning of sentences.
1. Going forward
2. No disrespect, but…
3. 'like' as a filler
4. I wanted to reach out
5. I'm not gonna lie
6. Basically
7. Let's go offline
8. 'So' at the start of a sentence
9. The 'optics' of something
10. My bad
No 8 puts my dad mad. I’ve pointed out it’s no less silly a discourse marker than ‘well..’ but he won’t have a bar of it.
This reminds me of an essay I was writing the other day and I went back and read through it and I was shook just how many filler words were unecessarily in there just because I was typing "like I speak" so there's a lot of words that verbally get put in there to seem more polite when it has to be said to a persons face, but are essentially useless and add nothing to the actual points when in a text form.(And it's habit now, heck I even did it with this reply. I could have put a fullstop after Polite and called it done, but for reasons I am not privy to my brain didn't lol.)