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hiromichi

Joined: 12 Oct 2005
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 5:18 pm Post subject: tics and crutches

What are ticks and crutches? Once you start noticing these verbal tics and crutches, they rankle like a roomful of sneezing in-laws. I recall one commentator who started every other sentence with “The, uh”: “What’s your favorite Shakespeare play?” “The, uh … Hamlet.” _________________ Hiromichi

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