{"id":590,"date":"2015-03-13T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=590"},"modified":"2015-03-13T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:27:19","slug":"use-your-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/03\/13\/use-your-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week in class I chose to observe how often we use specific words. \u00a0I chose the words “like”, “um”, “kinda”, “ok”, and “so”, because I wanted to see how often they actually occur in conversation. \u00a0I’ve always been reprimanded for using “like” so often, so I wondered if it would be used as frequently in class as it is \u00a0in normal conversation. \u00a0Turns out, its used fairly\u00a0commonly in class as well. \u00a0Additionally, after the first hour of class I realized that almost every sentence either began with “so” or used “so” as a conjunction. \u00a0Here are the results of my tally.<\/p>\n

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It turns out that “so” barely edged out “like” for most frequently used. \u00a0“Um” was a decently close third place. \u00a0“Ok” and “kinda” were not frequent at all, which I found surprising. \u00a0In hindsight, other words that I would have been interesting\u00a0to include are “you know”, “sorta”, “well”, “stuff”, and “whatever”.<\/p>\n

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This week in class I chose to observe how often we use specific words. \u00a0I chose the words “like”, “um”, “kinda”, “ok”, and “so”, because I wanted to see how often they actually occur in conversation. \u00a0I’ve always been reprimanded for using “like” so often, so I wondered if it would be used as frequently … Continue reading Use Your Words<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-group-5","category-observers","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}