May be one of the criteria of fluency but not xactly

not really....not always !! grammar and clarity while being fast cud possibly be taken as fluency technically !!

which category do u fall into??? fast / fluent??? haha  ...jus' kiddin'

 just reminded of a dialog between Rajnikanth and his employer in the movie Vettaikkaran..

injection is conjunction between the conduction... blah blah nnu ethetho fast-a ore moochile solluvar.. 

the employer selects him for his fluency in English!

i for one dont believe being fast means being fluent . stress pause, voice modulation, intonation, use of the right words for the right effect , with the right volume conveys a lot in the way it is meant to convey .

sranj , exactly my point !! and the use of unecessary fillers for ex. like, means innumerable times . i sometimes count the no of times a person repeats a particular word in a conversation :)

Smita..leave of ur fluency..when I happened to sit for on call with US counterpart..U know they are good at fluency...but still u cud see them use....much of fillers like like ...or err err err to complete the sentence..fluency is nothing but the quality of being facile in speech and writing...being fast u can talk all rubbish u want .. with no matter in it.

this is a problem across the world , errr,ummmmm , aeeee (thats for the spanish :) . it doesnt even give u time to think or listen to the sound of your own voice ( which is very helpful in public speaking)

i second velvizhi.. i am on calls almost everyday with business consulting people... though they are the senior most in their respective departments, and sit in the US and UK, they use a lot of fillers..

i know the person sitting next to me using all kinds of filles like.. "u know".. aaa...ooo...eeee.... and lot more.. for no reason...

 as i said its not only a US UK problem, just look around you locally, it will be a lot of fun :)

I strongly disagree with this...just imagine the person whose mothertongue is english can't communicate without any fillers..then how come indians?

here i am talking more about speed , using little bit of fillers is fine, but too many sounds toooo awkward...and this isnt about indians vs foreigners

wow .. wht do i say .. ?