Rising in pitch at the end of sentences make you sound ‘insecure’
Rising in pitch at the end of sentences make you sound ‘insecure’
Exactly. Like you are fishing for approval from the listener.
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.