A psychiatrist working at Yale University, George Mahl, counted and examined ten speech disfluencies (including the infamous "uh" and "um") with the purpose of measuring a person's anxiety level. He calculated that, on average, during every 4.4 seconds of spontaneous speech, one disfluency occurs in a person's speaking. (Source)
A week or so ago I read this post
by Silouan that is full of quotations from the
ancients about how bad the youth of their day were. It's funny, because
much of the same language that those ancients used is being used by the
parents and elders of today.
