Re: CHAT: ...y'know

Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...> wrote:

> Of course, the really determined space fillers will the resort to
> _beginning_ sentences with "Basically......."   I haven't worked out a
> response to this yet.
>=20
Reminds me of a filler that TV journalists use all the time
here: "De alguna manera..." ("In a certain way..."). It doesn't
really mean anything but they begin every other sentence with it.
And they also precede some noun phrases with "esto que es..."
("this which is..."), more or less consistently, =E0 la French=20
question ("qu'est que c'est").


--Pablo Flores