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To: fishtank

<< If a guy has a natural-born effeminate voice >>

I think you (and just about all the other commentors on this thread) have missed the point:

It’s not about having an “effeminate voice” or about speaking in a uniformaly high pitch.

Rather, it’s about the Valley Girls’ habit of making most declarative sentences sound like questions, due to rising pitch at the ends of phrases, particularly at the ends of sentences.

In other words, too many young men are now saying things like this:

“We went to Santa Monica today? and we surfed until four o’clock? Then we went back to the Valley? and we sniffed glue until midnight?”

All those phrases sound like questions to us normal people. But for the Valley Girls and their fawning imitators, every one of the phrases is meant to be declarative.

Go figure.


86 posted on 12/06/2013 7:26:42 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Hawthorn

“We went to Santa Monica today? and we surfed until four o’clock? Then we went back to the Valley? and we sniffed glue until midnight?”

LOLOLOLOL.

If I heard that today, I would think the guy is an idiot, not effeminate.....


126 posted on 12/06/2013 10:04:41 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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