GRAMMAR CRIMES DIVISION

The word “um” is older than most civilizations. It’s the original loading screen.

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Um is a filler word, and filled pauses like it occur in many languages. Whether it is older than civilization can't be known, because spoken fillers weren't recorded in writing in early times.

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