wat is that word ?

Question

arghhh... its the one word which says the meaning of - when u r in a conversation u speak stuttering or stammeringly... like adding "ummm" or "uhhhhh" or like thinking for a while and continue the flow of conversation ... wat is that word ?

Answer 1

muttering or mumbling

Answer 2

It's called disfluency.
'Speech disfluencies are any of various breaks, irregularities, or utterances that are often not consistent with any specific grammatical construction and occur within the flow of otherwise fluent colloquial speech. These include, for example, words and sentences that are cut off mid-utterance, phrases that are restarted or repeated, repeated syllables, grunts or unrecognizable utterances occurring as 'fillers', and 'repaired' utterances.'

Recent linguistic research has suggested that non-pathological disfluencies may contain a variety of meaning; the frequency of "uh" and "um" in English is often reflective of a speaker's alertness or emotional state. Some have hypothesized that the time of an "uh" or "um" is used for the planning of future words; other researchers have suggested that they are actually to be understood as full-fledged function words rather than accidents, indicating a delay of variable time yet to come. There is some debate as to whether to consider them a form of white noise or as a meaning-filled part of language.

Answer 3

I know what you're talking about but I don't know if it has been given a word.... you could just call it hesitation, some people call them fillers.... it's not really stuttering, although stammering is more like it... that's of course the verb for what you are doing. as for the collective noun for words like umm, ahhh, uhhh etc.... erm.. I don't know. I use erm a lot when I'm typing and probably ummm a but when I'm talking, hesitating looking for words or whatever... I guess most people never stop and think about it :-P

Answer 4

Are you talking about when you are in a what is called a "block?"

Answer 5

stuttering

Answer 6

here's a simple one: vocalizing one's pauses.

Answer 7

I think it is just stammering.

Answer 8

utter

Answer 9

DRUNKEN