"You know what I'm saying?"

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ER — 1/27/2014 5:00:48 AM (archived)

That one really drives me up the wall.

Another one is "...and stuff...". As in "In speech class we practice diction, rhetoric, and stuff."

Actually, none of these aberrations is really bad, until people start using them over and over.

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Another Grammar question - FrankC - 1/25/2014 7:30:23 AM
- Actually, - - - - bowser - 1/26/2014 4:44:26 AM
  - Actually,--- - ER - 1/27/2014 1:10:30 AM
    - Well, um, y'know, actually, when you think about it, for many people, sometimes, - bowser - 1/28/2014 3:10:19 AM
    - Verbal pauses, spacers... - FrankC - 1/27/2014 4:28:04 AM
      - "You know what I'm saying?" - ER - 1/27/2014 5:00:48 AM
        
        I find that the word "stuff" can work in literature, upon occasion, to show complexity, as well as skirting the issue of a repeated lising of complicated -- stuff . . . - DanS - 1/28/2014 2:34:41 PM
        
        nomesayin - FrankC - 1/27/2014 5:25:03 AM

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