Date:    Wed, 25 Mar 1998 08:41:09 -0500
<br>From:    sonja lanehart  lanehart[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARCHES.UGA.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Banning words in class
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<br>In my Intro to Sociolinguistics class Winter 1998 quarter, a couple of the
<br>students who are TAs for the intro composition class said they tried to
<br>ban the filler "like" in speech but had to give up the ban because
<br>students found they couldn't construct a thought without using it.
<br>Apparently the students just decided not to talk during class because the
<br>task of censoring their words was too much for them to overcome--or
<br>adjust.   --SL
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