237 - Um... huh? Are Interjections Useful in Speech?
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 237
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Episode description
On today’s episode: Whale poop and pee is more important than you might think! Um… What? Huh? And lots of other examples of why my public speaking teacher was wrong. All that and more today on All Around Science...
RESOURCES
- Discovery: The Great Whale Pee Funnel
- Huh? The valuable role of interjections
- Speech interjections aren’t throwaway lines
- Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items
- Listeners as co-narrators | APA PsycNet
CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
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