@MrRobot@lemmy.world to English usage and grammar@lemmy.caEnglish • 11 months agoHow do you call the words a speaker uses when he is nervous, like "um", "ah", "like"?message-square6fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up18arrow-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 • 11 months agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-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-square@DemSpud@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglish14•11 months agoI believe they’re called filler words
minus-squarestravanasuMlinkfedilinkEnglish8•11 months 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.
Thanks!