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How I did it: This is such a small thing but can be a great stepping stone toward improving yourself. I made the decision to remove all useless ums, ahs, ers, likes, and other similar noises from my day to day speech. I did this as part of a general self improvement effort.
I did it by making a conscious effort to think about what I'm going to say rather than just making it up on the fly and using space filler words to give me time to think up the rest of a sentence (which lets face it, is all it's doing).
It's not the easiest thing to do because it requires a significant change of habit, but it's extremely beneficial in terms of the often unexpected mental improvement. I found that not only in my case, but in the case of other people too, this particular change in speech pattern improved cognitive ability, and mental reaction time/alertness. It's a great brain workout to have to really think about what you're going to say instead of just puking out words with occasional chunks of meaning.
The more you do it, the quicker you get, until eventually you can respond with whatever wording you choose.
Lessons & tips: Stop to think before you speak.
Form your sentences in your head before you say them, if necessary.
When asked a question, resist the urge to immediately respond with "um", or to delay the beginning of a response by using "like".
awinterstale16 is new layout what? o.O
And she was like, ”...” is the worst!
And then she said, ”...” would be so much better. Why, why can’t I do this most of the time?
I’ve been paying attention when people give speeches, in class. SO many kids say like every few words. It makes me feel better about having this as a goal.
I just need to think before I talk more.
This is a terrible habit and i can’t string a sentence together without at least 3 ‘likes’ in there.
I’ve been wanting to do this for a very long time, I just can’t seem to “grab” it. It’s kind of difficult in a highschool situation, cause everyone else is doing it so you start to without knowing it.
twilight_poet i'm so postmodern
Grr, I still haven’t completely killed this one. It’s SO hard to pick yourself up on it! But I think I’m much better than I used to be. What I’d really like to do now is get rid of ‘um’!
bubbleyum994 is doing homework.
I tried to say the word “say” instead of like (for example “she was like ‘blah blah’”. I slipped up a few times, but it is getting better.
I’m not a valley girl. I’m not an idiot. I’m reasonably – no, actually, in truth I’m unusually eloquent for a teenager.
But I’m still, like, over-dependent? And I’ve caught myself doing that thing where I turn every sentence into a question?
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