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by justboxing 3218 days ago
> 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.