Public Speaking Tip: Stuffing Your Sentences
" So , you know , like sometimes when you hear someone talk, they like say a lot of like totally unnecessary words and umm , that sort of like , makes the sentence like really, really long. Umm , what's with that? Like it's just so like ah , strange, you know , that they can't say something so ah , simple like straight to the point, you know ." The above is an example of excessive use of "sentence fillers". The words in bold are the unnecessary words that we use all the time unconsciously in our daily conversations. In other words, we stuff our sentences. This may not be practiced in written form, but record yourself when you're having a conversation with a friend and you may surprise yourself at how you literally stuff your sentences with all these fillers. When you come for a Toastmasters meeting, you will notice that there are people taking up various roles such as grammarian, timer, evaluator and this strange role called ...