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Fun with verbal tics
Whenever I listen to talk radio or podcasts, I'm amused by the verbal tics that cultural commentators seem to share. In particular, I notice how often...
• Someone answers a question with "absolutely" rather than "yes"
• Someone uses the phrase "kind of" or "sort of" as filler
I really like the NYT Book Review podcast, and a couple of weeks ago I heard this little jackpot:
Absolutely ... that's sort of the elephant in the room ... is Apple going to produce a kind of category killer ... Apple as kind of being a competitor to amazon ... Apple became sort of the dominant player in music ... Apple wouldn't necessarily be kind of a shining white knight ...
That's 1 absolutely and 5 kind of/sort ofs, all in under 30 seconds.
(Still like the podcast - just having a bit of Friday fun!)
