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by rajjalan 3217 days ago
Agree regarding the uhms and yeahs being distracting. And agree with other poster that it should have been edited out. But as a note - I think, that is something cultural. It was an adjustment I had to make when I migrated to US. Growing up in India, it gave impression that you are paying attention, at-least in my circles.
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> I think, that is something cultural.

Yep, I think so too. Indian here also, living in US. Other phrases our peeps utter, similiar to 'uhms' are 'you know' and 'yaa?'. A couple of off-shore peeps I was dealing with were doing this in every other sentence and it was very distracting on our conference calls.