Have you considered, even for one moment, the possibility that some of us prefer to choose our words and require a verbal means of indicating that? Or that this is arguably a more sophisticated way of conversing than spending the time the other person is speaking planning our next contribution?
I use “like” and similar verbal bridges all the time, because when you’re speaking to me I want to be properly listening to you, and I can’t do that whilst also fully forming my reply. If someone is coming back with precise language in real time then they haven’t heard you at all.
This is an agenda I will cheerfully vote for.
Sure wish my kid would stop bellowing “daddy’s tongue ring” and laughing with glee long enough for me to post flyers through the neighbourhood doors explaining that it’s not weird.
She just likes me to shout baaa in her face like a sheep. Ok, it is weird. But it’s not the bad weird.
We have had A DAY of it with Tilly. And it has been A WEEK in general. My point is I’m going to bed.