Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

But enough from me and my unnatural introduction. I spoke with two researchers about interjections, and I kicked things off the way I typically do for podcast interviews: Adam Levy: To start with, ...

I haven't found AI's to be inappropriately using expletives in my dealings with them. But since AI's are a commodity rather than a person, I'd expect filters to limit their use in public-facing, ...

Remember the kids who used to pepper their conversations with "uh"? Or the next generation, which started generously sprinkling in "you know"? Canadians have their own seasoning, which they liberally ...

The people who thought they were useless probably didn't even know about Schoolhouse rock. Either older or younger than we are. I think there may be more variations of "yeah no." I'm familiar with ...