Words-parasites inflict speech huge semantic damage. After all, the person who uses them often does not notice them or does not attach importance to the clogging of his speech, which becomes intricate and meaningful.
Extra words: how to do without them?
The list of parasite words is huge; being harmful, superfluous, “weeds” and “inserted elements”, they eat up the meaning of what was said, eating a person’s speech. However, they are not at all a sign of illiterate people and can be found in small numbers in the speech of cultural and literate individuals, and can even become an image that distinguishes a person from the crowd. As an example, one can even cite the specially created creative movement “Mitki”, which uses “yol-pali”, “aaaaaa”, “so” and other words that play a tactical role in its vocabulary. In this case, their pronunciation is conscious. And for the most part, parasitic words are used reflexively.
Tribute to fashion or illiteracy?
Words-parasites in speech can be used as a tribute to fashion. And they stick to the tongue only because they are pronounced all around. Some expressions can even beautify speech, writers and educated journalists sometimes use fashionable inserts such as “oki-smoki”, “pipets”, “respect”, thus replacing a few-word phrase that still needs to be correctly selected to clearly state your thoughts.
One of the reasons for speech clogging is the excited and emotional state of a person, when on the emotions weedy words fly off the tongue. Significantly pronounced "tin" will convey an incredible impression of the information heard, an approving "topic" will show the interlocutor an interest in something. The parasite words “forever”, “cool”, “perfect”, “excellent” are used to convey delight, satisfaction, sympathy and joy. Such options are used more often in youth slang.
It is interesting to note that almost never verbs, conjunctions, nouns, adjectives, prepositions are not included in the list of parasite words. Basically, these are particles (“as it were,” “perhaps,” “well,” “so,” “here”). The pronouns (“like him”, “there”, “this is the most”) are also used. Extra introductory elements of speech are also popular (“actually”, “shorter”, “therefore”, “let's say”, “in principle”, “means”), which have a weak lexical meaning. Moreover, the problem in this case is not the use of parasitic words, but the inability to clearly and clearly express your idea. Therefore, arising awkward pauses that create discomfort in a conversation, a person in a hurry to fill something.
Parasite words: examples
The list of superfluous details in everyday speech is extensive. Perhaps, rarely does anyone do without them:
- Count it up.
- Exactly this.
- Well.
- Type.
- No problem.
- As if.
- No problem.
- In short.
- Basically.
- Anyway.
- In practice.
- So to speak.
- Generally.
- Actually.
- Clear.
In fact, one should not be afraid to use pauses in a conversation; skilled speakers specially in public speech use them as tricks that concentrate the attention of the public and allow to qualitatively perceive and analyze the information they hear.
Why is it worth removing excess speed from your vocabulary?
- Due to their annoying effect, irritating hearing and making an unpleasant impression, especially during the first communication.
- Parasitic words and their meaning betray a person’s insecurity, making pronounced phrases less compelling and clear and turning them into a stream of “water”, from which we can conclude that this is a signal of poor knowledge of the situation.
- Clogging up speech, they lead to confusion in thoughts. With pure speech and thinking becomes clear and simple.
- They make no sense, often being companions of ignorant people.
- They make understanding of the meaning of speech difficult, disfiguring and simplifying it.
Parasite words and their meaning
Lexical parasites have the property of revealing the secrets and character of the person who uses them.
“In short” - most used by nervous, always in a hurry people. Most often found in the speech of short-tempered choleric. It is noted that the use of "shorter" only lengthens the statement. It can be replaced by the following synonyms: “in one word”, “so.”
“Actually,” is characteristic of insecure persons who are capable of throwing a scandal at the slightest occasion. Also, this is a catchword for self-confident individuals who have little to do with the opinions of others and put their own point of view in the first place, which they are ready to prove with foam at the mouth. Synonyms: “as a matter of fact”, “in general terms”, “in general”, “generalized”.
“This is it,” say lazy people, who try, when the opportunity presents itself, to shift their duties and responsibilities onto the shoulders of another person.
“By the way” is the favorite word of people who feel uncomfortable in the company and try to draw attention to themselves in this way. Synonyms: "by the way," "by the way."
“Type”, “means” - conservative and aggressive people use it. Synonyms: "therefore", "in this way", "it follows from here."
“As if” is a word of the teenage generation, as well as creative personalities, who in this way unconsciously emphasize the life uncertainty and insecurity in their own words, their approximation and incompetence. It’s either “yes,” or “no,” or “I don’t know.”
“That is” is the most insidious turn. It is used most often and disguised as a bunch of speech. If the use of parasite words becomes a habit, then speech will look cluttered. As a result, this will lead to her poor understanding by the interlocutor.
“In general”, “in general”, “so to speak” - in excessive consumption are a serious indicator of the speaker’s uncertainty, seeking to leave a loophole for himself to retreat.
How to get rid of unnecessary words?
It is noted that a person who uses extra inserts in his speech often simply does not notice them, which indicates the need to identify such shortcomings. You can do this by recording a specific text on the recorder - an article retold from a newspaper or a recently watched movie. Listening to the recording will reveal a list of parasitic words, lead to understanding and awareness of the shortcomings, and cause the need to get rid of them, because it will become clear which elements are unnecessary garbage in oral speech .
Interlocutors - frequent conversation partners - will help identify excess. You can ask someone with whom you regularly communicate (friends, colleagues, family members) to monitor the purity and transparency of speech.
Thinking over what has been said and intonation
It is easy to unlearn the parasite words, preliminary thinking over the future speech (story, report, speech), trying to give it conciseness and the right form. There is always a lot of garbage in the voluminous text, therefore, in order to avoid the presence of "water", it should be made brief and informative. And do not worry that after getting rid of excess elements, speech will seem poor and dull. In this case, intonation will come to the rescue, helping to speak enthusiastically about the most ordinary things, opening them to listeners from a new, previously unknown side. A quiet tone of voice, almost a whisper, which can turn into a harsh conclusion with an emphasis on the main idea, unhurried utterance of phrases, highlighting key turns and maintaining meaningful pauses is an effective tool that creates intrigue that attracts the listener’s attention and arouses genuine interest in the conversation.
Speech Cleansing Methods
It is interesting to use the so-called knock on the keys. To do this, just imagine that you need to type on the keyboard text or SMS message. And of course, it will be inappropriate that empty words will appear in the typed text - “this is the most”, “here”, “damn it” ...
Many oratory trainings to save their students from clogging of speech offer a very effective method, according to teachers. Each time you use the “plug-in element”, the person who hears it receives a certain monetary reward, which is a penalty for the speaker .
There is an opinion that when replacing a “annoying” word with a close one, you can exclude it from your speech, so you should always use synonyms to avoid repetition and the use of parasitic words. For example, for the word “probably”, the appropriate substitute would be: “probably,” “I guess,” “maybe.” A huge role in enriching the vocabulary is played by reading books, and reading aloud lays out the structure of the sentence in the mind and helps to expand the vocabulary, sharpen articulation, develop diction, get rid of tongue-tied, angular speech and rude expressions.
Speech clarity
The statement needs to be built from short sentences that are understandable and accessible to everyone, excluding from it a list of parasitic words that carry a negative connotation and make it difficult to understand what was said.
In any case, one's speech must always be carefully thought out, controlled, monitored and perfected. At the same time, it does not matter at all who the person is, the purity of speech should be unconditional when talking with any person!