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Ways to Use Conversation Fillers
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Miss Jean Teaches
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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Conversation fillers–in linguistics, it’s also known as discourse markers–are words or phrases that have many purposes: conversation fillers can help start a conversation, maintain a conversation, clarify what we say, better show our opinion, or make our words softer.
Transcript can be found here.
