Amendment to original post: A friend read this blog and said this to me:

"I read your blog entry on filler words, and yeah I believe a lot of written sentences by pretty much everyone in the world contain them, but I don't believe they should ALL be deemed as "filler" material. A lot of times, the writer is trying to articulate/convey something and ends up with a poor result. It still somewhat gets the point across but just barely. I don't believe in just eliminating filler words. If you see t...