Russian "Verbal Fillers"?

[Robert Orr]

In the 70's it was common to say  "pocemu?  Potomu, cto ..." in the middle
of bodies of exposition, far more often than necessary.

And doesn't one of Chekhov's characters talk this way?


-----Original Message-----
From: David Burrous <dburrous at jeffco.k12.co.us>
To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: Russian "Verbal Fillers"?


>I like this one:
>
>Ehto vot im'enno vot ehto vot tak.
>
>"C. Fields" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Udut, Kenneth wrote:
>>
>> > Hello again, SEELANGers!
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> One of my personal favorite ways of saying "and so forth and so on" was a
>> (I don't know how you spell it--I only ever heard it spoken) "tyra pyra
>> tyra pyra."
>>
>> And then for "that's how it goes" -- "vot takie pirogi!"
>>
>> Emily Fields
>
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