When listeners detect excessive filler words, the brain's amygdala activates a subtle "threat" response, signaling uncertainty or or unreliability in the speaker.
Writers can misuse or overuse hyphens, em dashes, colons and, to some editors' disgust, semicolons. Using a period is a ...
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