MrRobot@lemmy.world to English usage and grammarEnglish · 1 year agoHow do you call the words a speaker uses when he is nervous, like "um", "ah", "like"?message-squaremessage-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 grammarEnglish · 1 year 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-squarestravanasuMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoOr simply “fillers”, see last definition here. The general grammatical category is interjection.
Or simply “fillers”, see last definition here.
The general grammatical category is interjection.