Russian "Verbal Fillers"?

[Ilon Fraiman]

the most popular are "kak by", "na samom dele"

Ilon Fraiman
University of Tartu
www.ut.ee/~ilon
>

> Hello again, SEELANGers!
>
> I'm sure you are all quite busy with the new academic year,
> but I hope that you could, perhaps, answer a question of mine:
>
> What would be some "verbal fillers" in Russian?
>
> For example, in English, we have phrases like
> "You know", "like", "but that's how it goes", "so they say",
> "and so on", "etc", etc.
>
> I'd be very interested in a list of these.  I have a few lists
> of clauses (adjective clauses, noun clauses, etc, all
> nicely categorized), which is helping me quite a bit in
> learning to 'fill things in", connect ideas together...
>
> ...but I'm looking for those 'nonsense' things that
> are not strictly necessary in communication, but
> which are quite real and authentic, and help give
> the speaker (me in this case) a moment to think
> furthur - just as I use such phrases in English.
>
> Any help possible here?
>
>            Kenneth Udut
> Kenneth.Udut at SPCORP.COM
> "Voistinu CHelovek
> `Etot byl Syn Bozhij!'"