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English usage and grammar

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In my native language there's a word for that kind of words, but I'm not sure how they are called in english.

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[–] Lumun@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

You might find https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_(linguistics) interesting if you want to see what the filler sounds are in lots of different languages