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.
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Obama does it.
Rising in pitch at the end of sentences make you sound ‘insecure’
Pathetic
Sorry, what I’ve been hearing and it has been noted in articles, is the lowered pitch at the end of the sentence in young women’s speech patterns.
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I believe the term they use for this is “Vocal Fry” Quite annoying, and frankly a bit silly.
It’s not a dialect. It’s simply a speech pattern with some limited regional associations.
Drives me nuts, too. My father would say, “Let your voice drop: you’re done!”
I might do it for effect. If I ever start doing it all the time...somebody shoot me.
Rising in pitch at the end of sentences make you sound ‘insecure’
Exactly. Like you are fishing for approval from the listener.
I feel sorry for decent girls out there who are looking for real men among the eunuchs.
The chickification of western civilization is approaching completeness.
Or it makes your question sound like a question. I hate it when people talk like that.
More chicks for me...
>>and it drives my nuts!<<
You might want to correct that. LOL
It’s not uncommon among the Irish
I blame it on the producers of Jeopardy, who taught is all to make statements in the form of a question.
Now you know “THEY” would call us SEXIST if we were to point out the original ‘problem’.
I wish ‘they’ would write a set of rules so we would really know how (or at least how not) to act in their presence.
It is almost as hard as consistently hitting a ‘moving target’ in the urinal.
Californication has been in societal collapse for years. I don’t link it to the rest of the country anymore. :-)
Ah yes, the Vocal Fry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsE5mysfZsY
What do you call that very weird speech pattern that Obastard has? I’ve never heard anything like it…lots of rise in pitch at the of his “sentences,” choppy halting delivery. It sounds like the result of erious brain damage as a child or teen.
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