#conversational fillers
- Hey — A popular or regional interjectional form used to draw attention, express mild surprise, an urge, or to reinforce a statement in informal dialogue. It is a phonetic or truncated variant contextually correlated with other exclamatory elements like 'adevar', 'de', 'ia', or 'aide', predominantly found in regional dialects.
- That is to say — A regional or archaic phonetic variant of the adverb 'adică'; used in informal speech or archaic literary texts to introduce an explanation, a clarification, a structural conclusion, or to express a rhetorical surprise within a popular dialogue.