You know, I just find it very, you know, difficult to express myself without, you know, indulging in adding extra, you know, expressions into my speech, you know.
You may feel that I have exaggerated the problem in that sentence above but the truth is that I have counted the recurrence of those words as spoken by people being interviewed on television lately and most of them were much worse. I remember when the newsroom of the radio station I worked for began to change over from tape editing to computer based editing and my job was to convince the editor that it was quicker and better quality. We each took an interview and began to remove all the 'ums' and 'aahs' and 'you knows' and within about three minutes, I had done the job. Malcolm had only reached his third cut. He was convinced.
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