How many times does an average person say the Phrase "You Know"

Scourge · 08-18-2006, 07:15 AM

I dont know about you folks but here in houston i listen to a morning show called Walton & Johnson and they are very strick on how many times a person says "You Know" while on the phone with them. So pay atention(sp) and do a mental count on how many times someone utters this phrase. I think you would be surprised.

Master Megatron · 08-18-2006, 07:50 AM

The number of times a person says 'uh' or 'um' can also be surprising if you count it. BTW, nice cat (sig).

eyeballkid · 08-18-2006, 10:38 AM

I don't know, yaknowhatimsaying, i mean, sure, but yaknowwhatimsaying, its just that, um, i mean, yaknowhatimsaying?

Edgewise · 08-18-2006, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Master Megatron

The number of times a person says 'uh' or 'um' can also be surprising if you count it. BTW, nice cat (sig).

In high school(circa ~1992-3-ish) I noticed a little article in the newspaper about how many times various talk show hosts said "uh" or "um".... IIRC ... Letterman was the lowest with like a bit over 1 per minute while Pat Sajak(he had a show) was almost 10 per minute. Listening to someone say "um" every 6 seconds for an hour might be a clue for why it was "had" a show.

Anyway, I remember this so much because it nicely coincided with giving speeches in english class so my friends and I kept a tally of how many times each person in the class said "um" or "uh". It's kinda fun, just don't let the whole class know you're doing it.

rattrap007 · 08-18-2006, 11:16 AM

I had a history class once where the teacher read basically from the book and would say uh or um a lot. I counted once with a little tick sheet. I lost count around 120 or so. Now this was only a 45 minute class too!

Also one night someone had a pocket electronic Prefection game in the row in front of mine. At one point it went off. The teacher looks up and goes "Does someone need to turn off their cell phone?"

She was oblivious.

Mr. Jiggles · 08-18-2006, 11:43 AM

This dumb ass blonde freshman with fake tits was showing out in class today. She kept talking real loud and saying stupid shit, with 'like' as every other word. "So, I, like, had three shots of vodka, and like, four beers, and like, tequila, and I was, like, so sick. I thought I was gonna, like, puke my guts up."

I knew I shouldn't have skipped so many core classes back in the day.

I wanted to cut her.

Badly.

Chaos Muffin · 08-18-2006, 07:28 PM

The word 'huh' seems to be popular here. Even though they heard it, they just need time to process. So saying'huh' is like a delay word for 'give me time to think'

You know

Jux · 08-18-2006, 08:53 PM

I'm self conscious about how many times I use fillers such as "um" "uh" and others.

Four years of having that pounded into my head for a Communciation degree helped get rid of that habit.

Streck · 08-18-2006, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Jiggles

This dumb ass blonde freshman with fake tits was showing out in class today. She kept talking real loud and saying stupid shit, with 'like' as every other word. "So, I, like, had three shots of vodka, and like, four beers, and like, tequila, and I was, like, so sick. I thought I was gonna, like, puke my guts up."

I knew I shouldn't have skipped so many core classes back in the day.

I wanted to cut her.

Badly.

Understand, folks, that this is all code for "I wanted to pork the shit out of her."

Mike · 08-18-2006, 09:07 PM

i dont think I ever say 'you know' or 'um' or 'eh'

maybe once in a while