Yes. Er and Erm are spelled Uh and Um by Americans.
I think I have heard the following said by experts on NPR a lot: “Yeah. right. That’s a great question. So…” and then a technical explanation.
IOW “So” is a useful english word to transition to the actual explanation, after you have said your interjections.
“So…” is not a tic if it has a usage, meaning and logic beyond stalling for time, and its use reflects that. It does.
Wait.
First you contended that “experts” don’t use filler words. Now you’re contending that they do use filler words, and in fact use multiple filler words and phrases in a row, but the fourth one they use is different, and that one, and only that one, acts as a signifier of expertise and careful and considerate thought and research.
Except when it’s used by non-experts, in which case it’s used as a deception.
And, no one else in this thread understands or is aware of those meanings.
It’s possible, of course, that this usage of “So” is widely understood, and this thread is a bizarre statistical outlier, and somehow we’ve gotten only one of the majority of the population that share this understanding in the thread, and everyone else in this thread is part of the minority that doesn’t. But is it at least possible that you’re wrong?
If everyone else disagrees with you on the meaning of a word, that word doesn’t have that meaning. Now, participants in this thread aren’t everyone, of course. But can you point to anyone else that agrees with your understanding of the usage of the word “So”?
What? Good lord. Stop.
Experts say socially interactive stuff too. Everyone here describes it as stalling. But to give an explanation of a technical reality these days, they usually launch into it by saying “So…” That’s what I’m hearing on earth one. Where you at?
Huh?!?! Nobody understands the way you don’t understand me? Got it
You lost me. I’m not kidding. What is the elusive meaning of the word I’m suppposed to have understood from you or the other posters? And didn’t?
That it means “Um…”? it doesn’t. It means “So…”
So, I definitely can’t argue with all of that.
40 seconds
Yeppers
So anyway
Does anyone else play that game with themselves, identifying the reporter’s final syllable before the throw?
Yes because “noticing speech patterns” on the air is an impossible and absurd thing to do. And I shouldn’t be doing it. It’s CRAZEEEE! Who knows what could happen next!
Your responses are all either straw men (like the above dishonest reply) or deliberately shifted goal posts. Not one of your replies honestly engages with the comments you appear to think you’re responding too. Is this because you’ve invested so much in this absurd fumble, or is that the way you always argue a point?
Cite on straw man dude. Good lord.
OK you don’t want to recognize my point that I heard patterns of speech over time. For you it is unacceptable or something.
What on earth is your point so I can follow? (About this topic that you have posted on many many times to respond to me.) Are you responding in any way to any topic at all besides the ad hominem that an anonymous poster is “doing crazy talk” and upsetting you or whatever. I have never heard so much name calling over nothing. And you dare to call me a strawman?
Whats your eventual point about this topic, in which you are deeply invested with me, it if there really is one? (About the words you care so much about. If you care, and if there is a point)
Meet kettle.
Modnote: @lissener & @drad_dog time to drop this argument or take your disagreement to the pit.
Let this thread get back to the previous programming.
This is just a guidance, not a warning. Nothing on your permanent record.
So anyway
Does anyone else play that game with themselves, identifying the reporter’s final syllable before the throw?
Ana Gasteyer, of the SNL “Delicious Dish” sketches (notorious for the “Schweddy Balls”) once explained on NPR’s own Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me that the key to the old-school “Public Radio personality” sound is to sound like someone who knows you don’t need to worry about ever being interrupted, so you can “explore a subject to the point that people want to weep with boredom.” Clip and transcript..
never mind (posted a theory that wrapped up the “So” controversy for all time … then I saw the mod note).