When writing posts, I frequently have to go back and edit out the word “just” everywhere.
When speaking, I call everyone a “douche”. It’s [del]just[/del] such a perfect word for the sort of people I’m dealing with!
My SO sometimes asks questions as though I should know the workings of all businesses, especially places we are going to for the first time. “What time do they open?”, “Where do we pay for this?” et al. My snarky response is “I don’t know, I don’t work here”. It’s rude and I need to stop saying that, but at the same time, where would does he think I get x info from anyways?
When I am enthusiastic about something, which happens a lot, I start to talk rather…entusiastically. I should build in a 24 hour delay before I start raving about anything.
I start a sentence or story with “so” way too frequently. “So, I was at CVS and …”
One of my big filler statements is “kind of” (more accurately, “kinda”). It can be used where other people say “like”. I also end too many sentences with “y’know?” But I really DO have a reason - sometimes what I’m talking about is either weird or complicated so I want to make sure that I’m making sense.
And I have a phrase that came from the Dope! “attantion of details”. don’t ask, I bet you didn’t think a post you wrote 5 years ago would influence the everyday language of someone on the other side of the globe!
Oh, I also realized that I use “to be fair…” a heck of a lot. It happens a lot when I’m explaining/summarizing a current events story for someone or the positions in an argument/debate.
“Well,”, even in writing, though I do usually catch myself if I look before I send. When I do the tour bus thing, I often say “by the way”, which is really more of a fake “this just occurred to me (even though I say it every day, usually twice)”.