Right?

A curious filler word plagues professional-class liberal speech patterns. What does it mean?

Spend enough time around academics, non-profit workers, liberal media people, and the like, and you’re bound to come across a curious social practice: the use of the word “right” as a filler word. I’m not talking about “right” as a form of conversational assent but rather the kind of “right?” that comes after a sentence or between sentences, appended un…