Why, it's random, why do you ask?

[taratemima]

When I am feeling depressed and lonely, I either want to talk and talk or hide until the sadness goes away.

Apparently, the hospital never forwarded my insurance information to the ambulance. Since it didn't take in the hospital, I wonder how much they will pay of that, especially since it expired this month. I'll need to call them tomorrow.



If you were hearing this instead of reading it, you might notice a pause here and there tucked between the phrases, filled with a familiar, soft hum or rumble - an um or uh.

Though a bane to teachers of public speaking, people around the world fill pauses in their own languages as naturally as watermelons have seeds. In Britain they say uh but spell it er, just as they pronounce er in butter.

The French say something that sounds like euh, and Hebrew speakers say ehhh. Serbs and Croats say ovay, and the Turks say mmmmm. The Japanese say eto (eh-to) and ano (ah-no), the Spanish este, and Mandarin speakers neige (NEH-guh) and jiege (JEH-guh). In Dutch and German you can say uh, um, mmm. In Swedish it's eh, ah, aah, m, mm, hmm, ooh, a and oh; in Norwegian, e, eh, m and hm.

You can read the rest at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/03/arts/03TANK.html?ex=1074151452&ei=1&en=edcb4d0e212cdf59





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I'd love to do the music meme, but I have my MP3 playlist divided between two computers, and I am going to have to explain Marilyn Manson (man, I remember boycotting the dance floor everytime they played "The Beautiful People.") and the Sparks.

Is it wrong to want to join this community? Or help with the writing. It's consentual, right?