MrRobot@lemmy.world to English usage and grammar@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agoHow do you call the words a speaker uses when he is nervous, like "um", "ah", "like"?message-squaremessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1message-squareHow do you call the words a speaker uses when he is nervous, like "um", "ah", "like"?MrRobot@lemmy.world to English usage and grammar@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-text
In my native language there’s a word for that kind of words, but I’m not sure how they are called in english.
minus-squareDemSpud@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI believe they’re called filler words
minus-squarestravanasu@lemmy.caMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoOr simply “fillers”, see last definition here. The general grammatical category is interjection.
I believe they’re called filler words
Or simply “fillers”, see last definition here.
The general grammatical category is interjection.