Comments for Johnson Hunter http://www.johnson-hunter.com Consultants Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Is Um an Honored Part of Speech? by Marsha Hunter http://www.johnson-hunter.com/2011/08/16/is-um-an-honored-part-of-speech/#comment-7 Marsha Hunter Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:27:31 +0000 http://thearticulateattorney.wordpress.com/?p=408#comment-7 RIchard, I do not claim that professors speak without saying um. I said that some people are able to speak without saying um, which is true. Many people cannot, and I believe that professors tend to speak with many ums, and often speak with a stream of consciousness style that includes frequent dysfluencies. Of course um is a real part of spoken language. The question is, when is it appropriate, and when is it best edited out? The everybody-does-it argument doesn't mean we should honor it. RIchard, I do not claim that professors speak without saying um. I said that some people are able to speak without saying um, which is true. Many people cannot, and I believe that professors tend to speak with many ums, and often speak with a stream of consciousness style that includes frequent dysfluencies.
Of course um is a real part of spoken language. The question is, when is it appropriate, and when is it best edited out? The everybody-does-it argument doesn’t mean we should honor it.

]]> Comment on Is Um an Honored Part of Speech? by Richard I. Garber http://www.johnson-hunter.com/2011/08/16/is-um-an-honored-part-of-speech/#comment-6 Richard I. Garber Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:05:09 +0000 http://thearticulateattorney.wordpress.com/?p=408#comment-6 Marsha: Um may not be honored by writers, but it is a real part of spoken language. Spoken language obviously is not the same as written language. Your claim that professors speak without saying um is nonsense. Twenty years ago Schacter, Christenfeld, Ravina, and Bilious examined how professors at Columbia University really lectured, and they found one to six ums per minute. See “Speech Disfluency and the Structure of Knowledge’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Volume 60, page 362, 1991. Google the title as a phrase, and you’ll find a free .pdf to download. Marsha:
Um may not be honored by writers, but it is a real part of spoken language. Spoken language obviously is not the same as written language.

Your claim that professors speak without saying um is nonsense. Twenty years ago Schacter, Christenfeld, Ravina, and Bilious examined how professors at Columbia University really lectured, and they found one to six ums per minute. See “Speech Disfluency and the Structure of Knowledge’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Volume 60, page 362, 1991. Google the title as a phrase, and you’ll find a free .pdf to download.

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]]> Comment on Sound Advice by Pat Trebesch http://www.johnson-hunter.com/2009/05/27/sound-advice/#comment-2 Pat Trebesch Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:15:31 +0000 http://doimakemyselfclear.wordpress.com/?p=91#comment-2 Best wishes as you get through the tough times. I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers. I presented at the State Bar today and asked a friend to count my "uhms." I did a straight 15 minutes with only one. Getting better thanks to your advice. You have truly been an inspiration! Thanks for everything!!! Best wishes as you get through the tough times. I’ll keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

I presented at the State Bar today and asked a friend to count my “uhms.” I did a straight 15 minutes with only one. Getting better thanks to your advice. You have truly been an inspiration! Thanks for everything!!!

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