Learn key ways to master the polite interjection. You’re in a meeting with a few colleagues and your boss, discussing a project you’re heavily involved with. Although you have thoughts to share, ...

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

This week’s jumble of thoughts began forming when I played the word “ptui” in a Scrabble game, and my opponent Steve said he had never heard that one before. Spittlephobes, please forgive me. “Ptui” ...