How do you handle "You Know?"

But, to answer the thread's question, I just cut it out of the quote. As we can see in that transcript, it's redundant and not necessary.

 

Almost as redundant, you know, as if, you know, one were to, you know, hit quote to reply, you know, and leave the entire worthless transcript in said reply. You know?

 

Well, "Red," you know, I did make a mistake, you know. But, if I were you, you know, I wouldn't, you know, lose any sleep over it, you know?

 

I didn't get to see the interview of the artist known as "Big Baby," but Jankovic has broken my unofficial "you know" record of 28, previously held by Ralph Sampson. You know?

 

As do I. I've never used "you know" in a quote, and I edit it out if one of my reporters do.

 

Second behind y'know: "obviously." I'm hearing that a lot. And, obviously, it's unnecessary in most cases.

 

This, of course, goes back to the whole "cleaning up quotes" debate, and there are sharp divides on what people thing. AP says never do it in the stylebook -- and obviously does it all the time. I'm in the "clean them up within reason" camp, and think "you know" falls in that category.

 

Personally, I like you know.

 

I mean, yeah.

 

In a single post-fight interview with Max Kellerman a couple of years ago, welterweight Andre Berto popped "You know" in there 26 times.

It still wasn't as funny as this from Zab Judah:

 

How about the phrase "like I said"?

I swear, I'll go talk to a coach and, on my first question, they'll use that phrase.

Me: "Coach, what's your reaction to the fact that your star player just got caught fucking a moose?"
Coach: "Well, like I said, sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some".

What?

 

Clean up the quotes. We don't have space to waste, you know, on people's nervous ticks and throat clears.