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Another meaningless utterance that irritates me to hear is:
Ya' know



There's a term for this sort of locution. Other varieties are "um", "er" and "uh". They're used to continue speech flow while the speaker is framing his thoughts thus avoiding being interrupted by someone who thinks the speaker has finished talking.

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A carry-over from the early '80s it is overused ... far too frequently.



Is there another way to overuse something?