"
In fact, what I want to say... In fact... In fact...
" "
Genre
", " so"
,
"
well
", these little words, which serve as lexical crutches for us, are introduced in most of our sentences. Insidious, they are wrongly used as adverbs or coordinating conjunctions. “
When I say 'in fact', it's to explain something
,” notes Ombeline, 25. His brother Théodore, 17, is also fond of it.
“We say 'brother' to call someone but we also end our sentences like that, it's like punctuation. It's friendly.
Or even fraternal, shall we say... A habit that often escapes him. A character specific to tic, according to the Larousse which defines it by a "
unconscious habit in language
.
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The word "
tic
" is an onomatopoeic radical, that is to say from the onomatopoeia "
tikk
", originally evoking a sudden movement of the horse.
How did they then become these words or lexical groups that arise in the middle of our sentences?
If they don't add anything to the syntax or...
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