>>Unless too much wood exposure
What wood you be talkin bout?
Posted on 01/19/2014 2:48:36 PM PST by EveningStar
More young men in California rise in pitch at the end of their sentences when talking, new research shows.
This process is known as "uptalk" or "valleygirl speak" and has in the past been associated with young females, typically from California or Australia.
But now a team says that this way of speaking is becoming more frequent among men.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
That’s right, and sales trainers from regions where uptalk is common (like mine) will point that out as a reason to change that speech pattern, to sound more confident. I never spoke that way, but I had to train (or at least attempt to) my kids, who were picking up that bad habit from their peers. I must have said to them “Are you asking me or telling me” about a million times.
Thanks for putting a name to this ... the pattern sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Young men do it too now. Fake bass notes.
Yes it is - forgive my laughing but Berlin Freeper just personified the article in one word - could hear the inflection in his comment from Australia.
Mel
lol. You would probably call it “normal” there.
/just kidding
One thing that let’s me know I am now Mr. Mushnik (”You! Urchins! OFF THE STOOP!”), is how I just can’t tolerate the things kids say. The big thing now is them saying “No Problem” or “Not a Problem” when conducting business.
There is a beautiful young woman that works as a barrista at the café in my town on the weekends when she is home from college. She graduated High School last year as the class valedictorian. On Saturday I happened to be downtown and stopped in for a cup of coffee... and so I pay for the coffee and she give me the change and I say “Thank You” and instead of “You are Welcome”, she always says “No Problem”... it’s off-putting... like she is reversing the roles like there is absolutely some way in this situation the she could possibly have “a problem”.
One time I dropped change in the jar for a tip and she thanked me... I smirked and said No Problem!
Related to the “uptalking” I heard recently on a Canadian radio station that kids up there are moving away from the stereotypical Canadian way of ending a sentence with the upspeak word “eh?” and are using the word “right?” instead.
“It’s pretty cold outside today, eh?” is now “It’s cold outside, right?” spoken like a question when it is a statement.
Like, real-Y???
What wood you be talkin bout?
lol — good point!
Yikes.. Thanks for catching that typo! LOL!
I love Sean, but he can be annoying on many levels.. not just the up-talk.
This thread would benefit from having Mark Ricciuto and little Telly Applebottom drop by to give it some dynamics.
lol
We used to call them ‘faggots’, but that term is now verboten.
“The Voice of the Neuter is Heard Throughout the Land”
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I’m not seeing it. This appears to be another one of those useless “studies” that masquerade as news these days. There has always been a subset of the male population that exhibited effeminate mannerisms. This goes back hundreds of years by the way. Not every man is a “manly man”. Just like not every woman is a “girly girl.”
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