A quick huh? or what? from the listener, on the other hand, can signal a failure of communication that the speaker needs to repair. That need seems to be universal: In a survey of 31 languages ...

Mahomes shared the perfect GIF (rather appropriately from the Netflix docuseries, The Last Dance) to welcome his close friend back to the team: ...

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I might find that encouraging and add more detail,” says Nguyen. “But if you do something like, ‘Uh-huh,’ I’m going to assume you aren’t interested in more detail.” A key part of ...

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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 ...

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