Sunday, September 23, 2007

Verbal crutches

In Japan, the verbal crutches are eto and ano. This entertains me to no end. I mean, like, umm, do Americans sound that, uh, funny when they talk?

I can picture school speech competitions where the teachers say, "OK, now try speaking for three minutes without an eto or ano."

"Ehhhhhhhhhh
?"

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