Originally Posted by
jacone21
It's not a word... but I'm really hating the current trend where people end every sentence by raising the pitch of the last wORD. It's like every sentence is a quEstION. I really wish they wouldn't do thAT. Do you know what I mEAN?
I'm hearing it from 8th graders to soccer Moms these days and it grates on my nerves. Where did that originate?
Originally Posted by
rsvman
It's teenage speak, and mostly teenage girl speak, and I think it peaked about 5-8 years ago, to be honest. In other words, I heard it a lot more back then than I do now.
In those days I actually had to take individual medical students aside and tell them that they needed to focus on not speaking like that when presenting patients on rounds because it made them sound childish and unprofessional. They seemed shocked. Most of them had no idea that they spoke like that, and had never really made a declarative statement in their entire lives.
That's called "up talk" and is up there with "vocal fry", according to a 2014 TIME magazine article, as one of the more annoying and self-defeating voice habits used primarily by women.
http://time.com/2820087/3-speech-hab...ob-interviews/
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