Everyone uses it.
And everyone finds them unbearable.
Language tics are a funny paradox.
When an interlocutor repeats
"in fact"
and
"as a result"
all three words, we only focus on this cursed tic.
And the most surprising thing is that the person who says it doesn't realize it most of the time... Why do these language tics have this irritating effect on the listener?
Are they really as harmful as we think?
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Their untimely repetition makes speech inaudible
The tic is a “habitual gesture or attitude, which repetition renders more or less ridiculous”, according to Le Robert.
When it concerns language, it is a word or an expression which returns abnormally in the speech of a person or a group.
For Michel*, 22 years old, these are itchy hairs.
"
I often say 'you see'.
But what irritates me more is when someone constantly throws “gender”…
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