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To: Gene Eric

Gutfeld got that from Seinfeld. Women from Texas uptalk a lot.


11 posted on 01/10/2014 3:09:37 PM PST by Hugin
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To: Hugin

Actually, the term “uptalk” was coined by James Gorman in this NYT piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/15/magazine/on-language-like-uptalk.html

Linguists call this verbal feature the “High Rising Terminal”.


18 posted on 01/10/2014 3:26:48 PM PST by oblomov
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To: Hugin
Women from Texas uptalk a lot.

Not in my experience. I'm a California native who moved to Texas eight years ago, and I heard far more of that 'uptalk' lilt when I was back home, than I've ever heard out here.

Used to drive me nuts. Even grown people talked that way.

33 posted on 01/10/2014 5:08:19 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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