Parkinson - how annoying

[E. Cosgrove]

I was once video'd doing a presentation, I felt that it went well and I was quite confident. When they played it back to me I was horrified at the number of times I said "erm" it was done quite subconciously.[msnembarrased]

[Nostromo]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by E. Cosgrove
I was once video'd doing a presentation, I felt that it went well and I was quite confident. When they played it back to me I was horrified at the number of times I said "erm" it was done quite subconciously.[msnembarrased]
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"Erms" and "aahs" are quite usual in conversation among Americans, even during celebrity TV interviews. Perhaps you are picking up some of the mannerisms with all those trips to Florida, Liz.

[Rhosyn]

Thankfully we were out at friends for dinner, thank goodness by the sound of it I didn't miss anything "you know". Not it is not funny a little girl in the class I help out in starts all here sentences with Do you know she can be excused as she is only three.
Rose

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by E. Cosgrove
I was once video'd doing a presentation, I felt that it went well and I was quite confident. When they played it back to me I was horrified at the number of times I said "erm" it was done quite subconciously.[msnembarrased]
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Were you on a Presentation Skills course by any chance?

Part of our business is running these[msneek]

[E. Cosgrove]

Yes Lucy, "Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice!!"[msneek]<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Mach 2
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by E. Cosgrove
I was once video'd doing a presentation, I felt that it went well and I was quite confident. When they played it back to me I was horrified at the number of times I said "erm" it was done quite subconciously.[msnembarrased]
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Were you on a Presentation Skills course by any chance?

Part of our business is running these[msneek]
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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by E. Cosgrove
Yes Lucy, "Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice!!"[msneek]<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Mach 2
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by E. Cosgrove
I was once video'd doing a presentation, I felt that it went well and I was quite confident. When they played it back to me I was horrified at the number of times I said "erm" it was done quite subconciously.[msnembarrased]
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Were you on a Presentation Skills course by any chance?

Part of our business is running these[msneek]
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Oh you poor thing, we are very careful how we give feedback[msnwink]

[Ray&Sarah]

Glad we were in Florida and missed this programme then, sounds really irritating.[msnoo][msneek]

[Lyn]

I always watch BBC1 in the morning while getting ready for work, there used to be a presenter on & I can't remember his name who always kept going "erm" every few words it really used to get to me.

[Nostromo]

Speaking of annoying voices, the one that really sent me up the wall was Terry Wogan's horribly grating pseudo-cultured voice on Radio 2 in the mornings. I stopped listening to that station even though I liked the programmes otherwise. Wogan's voice geve me the heebie-jeebies. It was listening to a well-tuned robot.

[stabard]

Oh I like Wogan - I find it a nice gentle way to wake up in the morning, and I know I am a Tog[msnwink]