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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: what people say when they're pausing (uh)
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 04:21:24 GMT
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Not so very long ago, "Paul J. Kriha" <kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz> said...

>My pet hate in English conversation is "you know". Some random interviews
>in the street can often yield 2 or more "you knows" per sentence. 

  And I have suffered through conversations in which the other speaker 
ended every sentence with "...okay?", and inserted quite a few into the 
middles of sentences as well.

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                              ==----=                    Steve MacGregor
                             ([.] [.])                     Phoenix, AZ
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