History VerbalTic / RealLIfe

* Finns often say "no", "no niin" or "niin" before sentences, as a way of hesitating similar to the French "alors". Note that "no" is pronounced more like the word "not" with the t cut off than like the English word "no". It can be translated as "Well" or "Well then". They also tend to casually swear a lot. They often start sentences with "Voi" or "Voi voi" when surprised or disappointed too, which can be loosely translated as "Oh" or "Awww..."
** Unless the Finn's name is ''[[UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Kimi Raikkonen]]'', in which the appropriate tic would be "Bwoah." Hell, it has even been tagged by automotive website ''Jalopnik'' as their [[https://jalopnik.com/2016-word-of-the-year-bwoah-1790589810 2016 Word of the Year.]]

* [[HollywoodTourettes Tourettes Syndrome]]. In that case it really is an unavoidable compulsion. Many people with Tourette syndrome have at least some verbal tics. They aren't necessarily cursing; they may be saying things like "kitty" instead. That said, classical diagnoses of Tourette syndrome require at least one "phonic" tic, which can be as simple as grunting or throat-clearing.

* Excessive use of filler words -- like "um", "ah", "well", etc. -- is a very common side effect of stuttering. A form of stuttering is called dysfluency, where patients may drag out a sound toward the end of a phrase or tack on an extra syllable or two.

** Québecois French Some locals have the habit of saying "là" ("there") at the end of each sentence. "Alors" ("so") also sometimes fills this role, as does "genre" (similar to "like") and "moi" ("me") and "lui" ("him") are often thrown in where an English speaker would consider the sentence complete without them. Eg, "Il est tropeur, lui" would be "he is a troper, him". Those constructions - for example, "He's a troper, him" or "I like beer, me" - are also associated with certain English dialects, particularly Geordie / those from the North East.

* [[UsefulNotes/CanadianAccents Québecois French]] qualifies as tic, as some locals have the habit of saying "là" ("there") at the end of each sentence. "Alors" ("so") also sometimes fills this role, as does "genre" (similar to "like") and "moi" ("me") and "lui" ("him") are often thrown in where an English speaker would consider the sentence complete without them. Eg, "Il est tropeur, lui" would be "he is a troper, him".
** Those constructions - for example, "He's a troper, him" or "I like beer, me" - are also associated with certain English dialects, particularly Geordie / those from the North East.

** Which comes off as GoshDangItToHeck to the French French.

* In mainland China, there's a few verbal tics that depend on province and dialect. One of the more well-known ones is the tendency of Mandarin speakers (especially those from Beijing) to append "-ar" (rhymes with "car") at the end of phrases, sometimes slurring words together. The end result turns the accent-less sentence "Xiànzài jǐ diǎnle?" ("What time is it?") to "Xiànzài jǐ di-ar?".
** This tic is noticeably absent outside of the mainland, which is an easy way to identify who lives there and who doesn't.
** In fact, the "-ar" tic is so prevalent that the Japanese have their own stereotype of Chinese people ending their sentences with "[[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia -aru]]", the phoentic equivalent.
* Mexican people, especially those from Mexico City, often append "güey" (alternatively a friendly word, kind like "dude", or a serious insult equal to "fool") at the end of their sentences; Northerners and Mexican-Americans, meanwhile, often do the same with "ese" ("homeboy").
** People from Mexico City also tend to start their sentences will "Pues..." (which can be translated as "Well...") and end them with the same "eh?" as Canadians do.
* Argentines often start their phrases with "che"; the rebel leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna gained his nickname because of this habit.
** Similarly, in southern Brazil, "tchê" is often used as a way of saying "dude" or "man".
** It's also very common, especially in and around the Buenos Aires province, to append a "viteh" to the end of almost any declaratory statement. It's "¿viste?" in heavily accented Buenos Aires Spanish; it means "did you see?", but is used colloquially as the Minnesotan "doncha know?".
** When an argentinian stumbles over his words due to [[MotorMouth talking faster than he thinks,]] instead of stammering or going "uh" for a moment while the brain catches up, he'll invariably say "este, como es?" which is somewhat difficult to give a real translation to. Formal: "This, how is it?" Dynamic: "How's it go?", "It's like..."
*** Similrily, when a spaniard forgets which word to use or doesn't feel like using a complex word, s/he'll sometimes shoehorn the word "desto" ("de esto" = "this's") where said word would go, the same way an English-speaker would say "give me the thingy". Notable because, unlike in English, it's always compleatly clear and obvious from context what word s/he's traying to convay, so most people don't even notice when someone does this.

** Unless the Finn's name is ''[[UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Kimi Raikkonen]]'', in which the appropriate tic would be "Bwoah." Hell, it has even been tagged by automotive website ''Jalopnik'' as their 2016 Word of the Year.

* Everyone in the world, at least almost everyone, has one of these.

* [[Music/FreddieMercury]], darling!

* It seems as though UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump can't mention the name [[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hillary Clinton]] without putting the word "crooked" before it.

* Verbal tics can be found in Autistic People and can be either transient (lasting no longer than a few months to a year) or chronic (persisting beyond a year).

* Some people from Galicia (an autonomous community in northwestern Spain) add "hom", "ho" or "oh" at the end of some sentences (usually questions or exclamations)

* In United States public speaking courses, students are advised to *practice* developing the VerbalTic of "ummm" or "hmmm" (which usually sounds thoughtful or contemplative when used in public oratory) so that they may cultivate it as their filler of habit, to circumvent using "uh", "d'uh", "err", "y'know", or other more common fillers (which tend to sound uneducated, jejune, or clueless when used in public oratory).

** In the Brazilian equivalent of Tennessee (Minas Gerais), there are several dozen verbal tics, the most (in)famous being adding "uai" to the end of sentences, or not pronouncing soft Ls that follow an A (so "wall" would become "wah"). The younger crowd refer to each other as "vei" (a mispronounced slang term for "velho", meaning old).

** People from Dominica have a habit of adding "wi" and "nuh" to the end of their sentences. We can turn it off in polite conversation though.

* It seems as though UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump can't mention the name [[UsefulNotes/HilaryRodhamClinton Hilary Clinton]] without putting the word "crooked" before it.

* [[HollywoodTourettes Tourettes Syndrome]]. In that case it really is an unavoidable compulsion.
** Even more ''realistic'' Tourette syndrome people have at least some verbal tics. They just aren't necessarily cursing -- they may be saying things like "kitty" instead.
*** Classical diagnoses of Tourette syndrome require at least one "phonic" tic, which can be as simple as grunting or throat-clearing.

* Excessive use of filler words, like "um", "ah", "well", etc., is a very common side effect of stuttering.
** There is also form of stuttering called Dysfluency in which patients may drag out a sounnnnnnd toward the ennnnnnd of a phraaaase, or tack on an extra syllable or two-ee-o.

* {{Jive|Turkey}} has "yunno whaddam sayin'?"
** Gnome sane?
** Nameen?

** From Metropolitan French, you also have "tu vois" ("you see") at the end of a sentence, and its [[JiveTurkey suburban counterpart]] "t'as vu" (roughly "you've seen"), although the media mainly use them as [[DeadHorseTrope a parody of celebrity speech]] these days. Like all speech filler, it is [[UndeadHorseTrope still in use]] by some people, however.
** Also from Metropolitan French, also at the end of a sentence and [[RuleOfThree also supposedly discredited]], there's ''"quoi"'' (word-for-word ''"what"''). Unlike "tu vois", though, it also gives the sentence a very particular tone, and has no real equivalent in English or, indeed, any other language. It is therefore extremely difficult to translate.
*** Although in many pockets of northern England, the word "like" conveys this tone perfectly, like. This is not the same "like" referred to further down the page, like. When used in the interrogative by the same people, it roughly translates to a prefix of "Can I conclude that..." ("Is John home?" "Do you want to see him, like?")
*** Francophones from all over have their own equivalent of "eh" in "hein," which despite the spelling is pronounced like a very nasal version of "eh." And they actually do use it as much as a US caricature of a Canadian says "eh."

* [[CanadianAccents Québecois French]] qualifies as tic, as some locals have the habit of saying "là" ("there") at the end of each sentence. "Alors" ("so") also sometimes fills this role, as does "genre" (similar to "like") and "moi" ("me") and "lui" ("him") are often thrown in where an English speaker would consider the sentence complete without them. Eg, "Il est tropeur, lui" would be "he is a troper, him".

* Verbal tics can be found in those with Autism and can be either transient (lasting no longer than a few months to a year) or chronic (persisting beyond a year).

** German teenagers (regardless of gender) often use "halt" in a similar manner.

** There's also the frequent use of kuwa/thing as a pronoun. "It's in the thing".