Nico: Alright so umm….
Matai:Third time lucky.
Nico: Third times the charm, Things that you do inside of school and that you like and are fun. The thing is when your, Welllllllll let’s just say you like arts and you do lot’s of it outside of school-
Matai: And then you go to math.
Nico: Yeah…. It sucks. It sucks like nothing else. Umm…. Say you like Creative Writing and then you go to History
Matai: Yes uhh….
Nico: I could be doing so many things. Sleeping
Matai: Yeah Yeah that’s important
Nico: Gaming
Matai: Importantish
Nico: Doing things. Doing drawings. Drawing, Drawings because is-
Matai: Mr Fisherman
Nico: Yeah Yeah that’s me
Matai: And the Goblin
Nico: Yes Goblin Cage. And yes Mr Golem
Matai: Yeah….
Nico: Yeah I could be doing all the things in the world, Like right now- But yeah that’s umm school
Matai: Cancel it for a while to have a holiday
Nico: Yeah umm So Yeah…. That’s it
Matai: Done.
PARAGRAPH
focus: gap filler. Example: Welllll, lets just say you like arts etc……
When we speak we add extra words, sounds or pauses that we wouldn’t use when we write down speech. Often we don’t even know we are doing them. When Nico says “Welllll, lets just say you like arts etc”. The “Welllll…” is not a formal part of speech. It is there to give Nico thinking time and to get Matais attention and prepare him to listen. “um” is used for the same purposes, these are called gap fillers and are used to fill the silence while the speaker is thinking or wanting to get the listeners attention. It can also be used to pace the talking so it doesn’t go to fast, letting both speakers have thinking time. A study was done to investigate what style of speech got the most information across to the listener, and they found that adding gap fillers such as um, like, well,mmm etc, actually helps the listener to understand, I think this is because it is a more natural way to speak. So verbal fillers are actually a useful part of speech that people use subconsciously and to great effect.
