"Go ahead and"

everyone has little verbal tics and i think it's impossible to know your own....

my mom says "you know" after almost every sentence

a coworker (who is not a native english speaker) says "don't get me wrong" about 10 times in a conversation

a coworker who sits next to me says "so-called" or "supposably" an awful lot

i am afraid to ask what mine is cause then i'll probably get all self conscious about it...

I listened to a training webinar for work a few years ago with a speaker who said the word "actually" 45 times in roughly an hour.  The word was not necessary in any of its applications.

This program was designed to actually help you with the GPS system..........

On this screen, actually type in your search keyword......

The client list is actually populated in this field......

It began to hurt my ears by the end of the session.

Don't you mean "It actually began to hurt my ears by the end of the session"????? 

I was actually instructed to use the "Go ahead and" when I was going through the train the trainer classes.  When I was teaching Lotus Notes to users and they wanted me to say "OK, now go ahead and ......

Everyone at my company says "So" to start every sentence. I had a tally mark going in a meeting once and in 30 minutes I had almost 100 tally marks.

"So, what we're looking at is XYX"
"So, I'm hearing you need me to do this."
"So, we need to engage finance."
"So, John's team is next to present."
"So, Scott is taking the action to create metrics."

It's awesomely hilarious when more than one person tries to talk or interject at the same time. It sounds like this:

"S" - "S" - "So" - "S" - "So" - "SOOOOO"

I'm not aware of an verbal "ticks" I have other than sometimes I repeat myself I repeat myself.

Supposably, people with college edjications use better grammer, spelling and word choose.  But irregardless of that fact, actually, I'm gonna go ahead and say that mite not be true.  It's a mute point and I could really care less anyways.

I'm parrot phrasing, but I'll go ahead and say it anyway...

I've started to hear "sort of" used quite often in many arenas. I heard an NPR interview with a youngish sounding social scientist and she used "sort of" almost every other sentence. I think it's become the smarter, more educated version of "like".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1fogI-33S4

Spend some time in the Toast Masters organization. While "um" and "uh" are discouraged strongly, there are other things you pick up on about your own speech patterns. After a few meetings with them, I have found it impossible to listen to webinars, seminars and other training classes. 

And please don't get me started on Air Quotes. This week we had Insurance presentations and I was ready to gouge out my eyes by the end. Every other sentence include the air quotes. KMN.

Does it date me if the first thing I thought of was this?

So classic!

Great stuff.