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More men speaking in girls' 'dialect', study shows
BBC News ^ | December 5, 2013 | Melissa Hogenboom

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 ...


TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: australia; california; genderwars; highrisingterminal; hollyweird; hrt; language; lofan; metrosexuals; sanfernandovalley; savethemales; surferlingo; teevee; tv; uptalk; valleygirlspeak; valspeak; waronboys
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To: SkyDancer

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.


41 posted on 01/19/2014 5:31:51 PM PST by zencycler
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To: Artcore

Thanks for putting a name to this ... the pattern sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me.


42 posted on 01/19/2014 6:05:36 PM PST by mikrofon (Ga-a-ag)
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To: Revolting cat!

Young men do it too now. Fake bass notes.


43 posted on 01/19/2014 6:13:30 PM PST by firebrand
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To: GeronL

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


44 posted on 01/19/2014 6:36:05 PM PST by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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To: dalereed

lol. You would probably call it “normal” there.

/just kidding


45 posted on 01/19/2014 6:38:41 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: SkyDancer

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.


46 posted on 01/19/2014 9:25:38 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Berlin_Freeper; Revolting cat!
REALLY?

Like, real-Y???

47 posted on 01/20/2014 10:28:40 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Fightin Whitey; Revolting cat!
>>Still masculine
>>Unless too much wood exposure

What wood you be talkin bout?


48 posted on 01/20/2014 10:31:37 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: rhinohunter

lol — good point!


49 posted on 01/20/2014 10:35:40 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: BlueYonder

Yikes.. Thanks for catching that typo! LOL!


50 posted on 01/20/2014 10:55:51 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Give me Liberty or I'll stand up and get it for myself!")
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To: Rio

I love Sean, but he can be annoying on many levels.. not just the up-talk.


51 posted on 01/20/2014 11:00:27 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Give me Liberty or I'll stand up and get it for myself!")
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To: melsec
what
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This thread would benefit from having Mark Ricciuto and little Telly Applebottom drop by to give it some dynamics.

52 posted on 01/21/2014 11:42:08 PM PST by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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To: mitch5501

lol


53 posted on 01/22/2014 1:54:23 AM PST by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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To: EveningStar

Rush vs. “Bobby the New Castrati”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCjMTtER7oQ


54 posted on 01/22/2014 2:11:23 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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We used to call them ‘faggots’, but that term is now verboten.


55 posted on 01/22/2014 2:31:20 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Fresh Wind

“The Voice of the Neuter is Heard Throughout the Land”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565987/posts


56 posted on 01/22/2014 2:41:31 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: EveningStar

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.”


57 posted on 01/22/2014 3:32:52 AM PST by SamAdams76
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