Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Nov 8th 2005, 8:36 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by Celtic_Angel
I've been here for 9 years and never noticed it...maybe it's a PA thing? 
Who knows, maybe you even do it and don't realise! Oh the horror! :scared:
Nov 8th 2005, 8:41 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by Nia_Nia
No I don't think so, I've noticed it on various American tv shows too. Perhaps you've just grown so accustomed to it that you don't notice it anymore.
Who knows, maybe you even do it and don't realise! Oh the horror! :scared:
Who knows, maybe you even do it and don't realise! Oh the horror! :scared:
Nov 8th 2005, 8:42 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by Celtic_Angel
I've been here for 9 years and never noticed it...maybe it's a PA thing?
This speaking manner once seemed to be the domain of "Valley Girls" (remember the Frank Zappa song?), but it seems to persist among a certain subset of young women, namely sorority girls and fussy, high maintenance middle-class princess types. Perhaps it's a linguistic signal flare to aid them in meeting others like themselves who are like, ohmigawd, so kewl!
Nov 8th 2005, 8:45 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP
It's largely a female teen-twentysomething trait (and one that you may have gathered that I loathe as much as the rest of you, despite my having a blue passport with the eagle on the cover.)
This speaking manner once seemed to be the domain of "Valley Girls" (remember the Frank Zappa song?), but it seems to persist among a certain subset of young women, namely sorority girls and fussy, high maintenance middle-class princess types. Perhaps it's a linguistic signal flare to aid them in meeting others like themselves who are like, ohmigawd, so kewl!
This speaking manner once seemed to be the domain of "Valley Girls" (remember the Frank Zappa song?), but it seems to persist among a certain subset of young women, namely sorority girls and fussy, high maintenance middle-class princess types. Perhaps it's a linguistic signal flare to aid them in meeting others like themselves who are like, ohmigawd, so kewl!
Nov 8th 2005, 8:55 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
I think the way the Ozzies do it and the Valley Girl thing are 'like' different. The valley way is to pause throughout the sentence, Ozzies dont do this.
Nov 8th 2005, 10:52 pm
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by Celtic_Angel
I've been here for 9 years and never noticed it...maybe it's a PA thing?
. It's definitely hard to read all those sentences with the ? at the end.
Nov 8th 2005, 11:05 pm
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by Celtic_Angel
I've been here for 9 years and never noticed it...maybe it's a PA thing?
Nov 9th 2005, 12:04 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by mandpete
Never noticed it in Noo Joisy.
Now my 7 year old daughter is doing it to me....too many hours watching the Disney channel and Lizzie McGuire,Kim Possible etc etc etc
Nov 9th 2005, 12:59 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
I have recently noticed my 9 year old doing it and we are in the deeeeeep south of Florida!! 
Nov 9th 2005, 3:03 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by Always21
Isn't that an Australian thing too? I seem to remember reading an article about how Neighbours had made us all speak as if everything was a question? I think I did?
Nov 9th 2005, 3:20 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by yorkshirelass
I have recently noticed my 9 year old doing it and we are in the deeeeeep south of Florida!!
Nov 9th 2005, 3:23 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by Rompers
My kids have abandoned the language of Shakespeare, Keats and Wordswoth and now communicate using the sounds eeewwwweeee (unpleasant) nuh ah (I believe you are mistaken) and durrr (That was a foolish remark.)
Nov 9th 2005, 4:01 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by Nia_Nia
Speak properly damn you!!!! Can anyone shed any light on why Americans do this? Its supremely irritating.
I know my accent is just as annoying to my co-workers
Nov 9th 2005, 4:16 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by Eskimo
er ...because they are not from the UK and have different accents and intonation I know my accent is just as annoying to my co-workers
I know my accent is just as annoying to my co-workers
Nov 9th 2005, 4:23 am
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Re: Has anyone noticed the question inflection?
Originally Posted by lionheart
........and just about everyone else in the world outside Birmingham and the black country
ULLLROYTTT ?
