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Do you or anyone you know speak in HRT (Upspeak)? Stop it. NOW.

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Vex

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Dont do it. Tell your friends to stop doing it. Tell your family to stop doing it. Tell your dog to stop doing it.

It will ruin your job interviews, people will think less of you as an intellectual, and it is generally annoying to the listener's ears.

Here is a video of what I am talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDZYCagHeqQ

Yikes, right? Don't do that. Especially you west coast California peeps. You know what I'm talking about. Please check that.

Thank you.
 
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Lightning hand5

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I know quite a few people who do this. I've learned to monitor my speech so I don't do it because when I hear it part of me thinks the person speaking isn't confident in what they're saying. I've also gotten into the habit of pausing and looking down instead of using "umm" when I can't remember the word I'm thinking about.
 
Zatoichi

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Bloody awful, mostly see it in shows as I am not American so I only see it in your television exports.
 
MotionBlue

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Who the hell does this? That was unbearable, I have never experienced or heard of this before(In Canada).
 
Volimar

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The first time I heard people do this was college. Family Guy also has a bit on it.

 

rude

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I've never heard anyone speak like this outside of scripted television and I live in SoCal. Vocal fry on the other hand.
 
honest_ry

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I work with a Canadian person that does this. Also here it all the time from Australians on TV.

It's fucking horrible.
 

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Is that when you speak like every sentence is a question? It does sound really dumb? I can't watch the video right now?
 
Hours Left

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I'll keep raising my voice until only dogs and ferrets can hear it, thanks.

I'm expressive AF.
 
GestaltGaz

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Squiggely said:
His Northern accent is pretty ok, his Dublin one is shite (non-existent). Especially when he says refers to the "Dublin 5", south Dublin accent. I assume he meant 4.

Even numbers South, odd numbers North of the River Liffey.
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Please go ahead with a better example, I'm no expert (Australian). I just picked the first video I found. I remembered Northern Irish people had this rising intonation accent but it didn't make me think they were less intellectual at all.

I believe the OP is thinking in American terms only (usual for this board).
 
Messofanego

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It's mostly women who get criticised for vocal fry and uptalk. But if a man speaks in a deeper voice, that is associated with power and attractiveness.


Maybe another form of sexism.
 

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Messofanego said:
It's mostly women who get criticised for vocal fry and uptalk. But if a man speaks in a deeper voice, that is associated with power and attractiveness.


Maybe another form of sexism.
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If someone's voice goes too low I just ask them to speak up. If they go too high I step about 3 feet back and pray they stop talking because it hurts my ears.

Male or female, that shit is painful to listen to.
 
Conciliator

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I've never really noticed it to be honest. I ain't really tryna micromanage peoples cadences or dialects though
 
Sowrong

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There's a local Mexican girl I followed on Instagram for "reasons". Man, Instagram stories were the worst thing to happen to my attraction to her. I knew she was a sorority girl, but hearing her talk like this.. boner killer. I don't think I could ever handle dating someone who speaks like this.
 
RiOrius

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RPGam3r said:
I don't you watched the example vid mentioned by OP. These two ways of talking are not the same.
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First sentence of the dude's post is "It's mostly women who get criticised for vocal fry and uptalk."'

They're different ways of speaking, but they have similarities (typically associated with women, looked down upon, possibly sexist).
 
LL_Decitrig

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Skelepuzzle said:
This was called "valley girl" when I was young, but I am now apparently old. Nothing new.
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Yeah, it's been around for a while, though in England here I've mostly heard it on YouTube and imported television. I would further speculate that the use of question marks at the end of declarative sentences, as frequently seen on this very forum, may be related to the rising intonation in everyday speech. As somebody who only expects a question mark when a question is implied, I find this hard to get used to, though I also find it somewhat endearing.
 
RPGam3r

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RiOrius said:
First sentence of the dude's post is "It's mostly women who get criticised for vocal fry and uptalk."'

They're different ways of speaking, but they have similarities (typically associated with women, looked down upon, possibly sexist).
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I don't care who is using uptalk. It sounds asinine to finish all statements as if they're questions.
 

Squiggely

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GestaltGaz said:
Please go ahead with a better example, I'm no expert (Australian). I just picked the first video I found. I remembered Northern Irish people had this rising intonation accent but it didn't make me think they were less intellectual at all.

I believe the OP is thinking in American terms only (usual for this board).
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Ah that's fair enough, dude just failed on the Dublin part.

This one is a bit better and showing the differences but would be really a generalization of both sides of the city, I'd imagine like any major city. :)

 
Amiibola

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I'm going to combine this with my andalusian accent when someone rubs me in a wrong way.

Sounds like a hylarious way to annoy people
 
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