“Admittedly I have a pet peeve over people who use the above filler words excessively and I recognize there is a time and place where each serves a useful purpose but I find it impossible to focus on their content when every single sentence is chocked full of these mitigating words. It’s strikes me as lazy language: instead of considering what they are trying to convey, the hosts (and many of their guests) like, kinda, sorta, you know their way through the interviews. And that, like, you know, sorta, you know, rubs me, like, the wrong kinda way. Language has meaning and when 15+% of the language used by these podcasters serves no purpose other than to pause the topic at hand, it perturbs the focus one would otherwise have.”
DatingShame via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/13/23