{"id":1709,"date":"2007-09-29T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2007-09-29T14:00:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T14:00:44","slug":"naturally_speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"Naturally Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I’m speaking–especially to larger audiences–I tend to sprinkle my speech with ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’. I’ve always regarded it as a bad habit and I try to suppress it as much as possible. My use of the ventilator requires me to pause every few seconds and there’s probably some element of my subconscious that feels the need to fill in the pauses with these verbal commas so that I don’t lose the attention of my listeners. But now there’s a study offering evidence that these “disfluences” help listeners focus their attention<\/a> on the speaker. That may be, but I still find them irritating when other people use them in abundance and I need to reduce them in my own speech. People may find my pauses awkward, but I like to think that it adds a little suspense to words that are otherwise woefully banal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I’m speaking–especially to larger audiences–I tend to sprinkle my speech with ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’. I’ve always regarded it as a bad habit and I try to suppress it as much as possible. My use of the ventilator requires me to pause every few seconds and there’s probably some element of my subconscious that feels […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-rz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}