http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/literaryterms Questions tagged with 'literaryterms' at Ask MetaFilter. Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:45:02 -0800 Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:45:02 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/44780/Help%2Dwith%2Dum%2Dhelp Lately, much to my annoyance, I've encountered many examples of this kind of sentence: "Customers like their hamburgers to taste like, well, hamburgers." "The album `The Allman Brother's Band' by, um, the Allman Brothers is one of my favorites." "Dorothy has red shoes, a dog named Toto, and is from, wait for it, Kansas." My questions: is there a name for the "well" "um" and the "wait for it" in these sentences? Is there a literary term for this sort of thing? Am I wrong that this is a growing trend? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.44780 Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:45:02 -0800 English literaryterms pasici