Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

Interjections primarily express emotion — often in a way that doesn’t seem very sophisticated. But Anne Curzan, an English professor at the University of Michigan and regular contributor to the Lingua ...

The people who thought they were useless probably didn't even know about Schoolhouse rock. Either older or younger than we are. I think there may be more variations of "yeah no." I'm familiar with ...