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I'd pick fake British any day, though I haven't heard any prominent use. Valley/Uptalk is the most annoying. Everything is a questionnn. No matter whaatt. Tho

I'd pick fake British any day, though I haven't heard any prominent use. Valley/Uptalk is the most annoying. Everything is a questionnn. No matter whaatt. Those are mostly regional accents btw, not generational.

rgrieselhuber 3y ago
Or people can just not speak in uptalk.
- MrOwnPut 3y ago
  That'd be nicesuhh?
- ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
  > Or people can just not speak in uptalk. What's uptalk?
  - BrianB 3y ago
    Not much, what's up with you?
- pdntspa 3y ago
  Or yall can just stop caring and put mental effort into worrying about things with substance instead of how people talk.
Freak_NL 3y ago
> Everything is a questionnn That particular affectation seems to have leaked into written text too. Damn annoying. > Valley/Uptalk is the most annoying. Add in a vocal fry and you'll have something to torture me with.
OJFord 3y ago
So, I feel like I agree with that?
- DiggyJohnson 3y ago
  > I feel like This is just a bit of a vent (as a Gen-Z-er myself), because "I feel like" reminded my of something I've noticed in my fellow young peers: "I was just going to say, <insert statement>." And, "I was just going to ask, <insert question>." This makes me sound curmudgeony, but I work with a non-negligible number of people that cannot avoid these constructions in any serious or professional setting. I'll hear it 10+ times in a half-hour meeting. It's so indirect, and I must admit I take the speaker less seriously when I notice it. Just say the thing! Just ask the thing! Has anyone else noticed this construction?
  - OJFord 3y ago
    I'm guilty I think of 'I just wanted to [verb ...]' - softens what follows as if to say 'not a big deal but'. It hasn't bothered me/caught my attention particularly before now, but I'm sure it will henceforth. (Not 'gen z' but 'millenial', I think, fwiw.)
    - OJFord 3y ago
      I noticed someone say it at least three times in a meeting not long after writing that. Thanks a lot! While I'm here, a similar one that does bug me (but at least for now I only hear Americans saying it, on Youtube or whatever) is 'I'm going to go ahead and [...]' or 'so I just went ahead and [...]' - why do you have to 'go ahead' before you do things over there, is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
      - DiggyJohnson 3y ago
        To your first comment: I also use the “I was just going to <verb>” construction to soften a statement, I just don’t use it ubiquitously - sounds like you’re in the clear. I haven’t thought about the going ahead/went ahead construction much. I loosely associate it with managerial talk. It does sound to my ears very subtly disingenuous. Now it’s my turn to be on the lookout for this. Cheers
permo-w 3y ago
the tiktok voice is quite valley girl, and I’m not sure there’s a more annoying sound around on the other hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM
WorldMaker 3y ago
Uptalk evolved to fill a social niche and is related to dialects/sociolects that commonly use "right?" or "eh?" to inter-punctuate sentences without using such filler words. (Admittedly, Valleyspeak is partly best known for different filler words so there was, like, no space for inter-punctuating sentences.) One article on the subject: https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/the-real-purpose-of-uptalk-is-to-make-you-shut-up-and-listen.html https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/the-real-purpose-of-uptalk-is...

rgrieselhuber 3y ago

Or people can just not speak in uptalk.

MrOwnPut 3y ago
That'd be nicesuhh?
ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
> Or people can just not speak in uptalk. What's uptalk?
- BrianB 3y ago
  Not much, what's up with you?
pdntspa 3y ago
Or yall can just stop caring and put mental effort into worrying about things with substance instead of how people talk.

Freak_NL 3y ago

> Everything is a questionnn That particular affectation seems to have leaked into written text too. Damn annoying. > Valley/Uptalk is the most annoying. Add in a vocal fry and you'll have something to torture me with.

OJFord 3y ago

So, I feel like I agree with that?

DiggyJohnson 3y ago
> I feel like This is just a bit of a vent (as a Gen-Z-er myself), because "I feel like" reminded my of something I've noticed in my fellow young peers: "I was just going to say, <insert statement>." And, "I was just going to ask, <insert question>." This makes me sound curmudgeony, but I work with a non-negligible number of people that cannot avoid these constructions in any serious or professional setting. I'll hear it 10+ times in a half-hour meeting. It's so indirect, and I must admit I take the speaker less seriously when I notice it. Just say the thing! Just ask the thing! Has anyone else noticed this construction?
- OJFord 3y ago
  I'm guilty I think of 'I just wanted to [verb ...]' - softens what follows as if to say 'not a big deal but'. It hasn't bothered me/caught my attention particularly before now, but I'm sure it will henceforth. (Not 'gen z' but 'millenial', I think, fwiw.)
  - OJFord 3y ago
    I noticed someone say it at least three times in a meeting not long after writing that. Thanks a lot! While I'm here, a similar one that does bug me (but at least for now I only hear Americans saying it, on Youtube or whatever) is 'I'm going to go ahead and [...]' or 'so I just went ahead and [...]' - why do you have to 'go ahead' before you do things over there, is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
    - DiggyJohnson 3y ago
      To your first comment: I also use the “I was just going to <verb>” construction to soften a statement, I just don’t use it ubiquitously - sounds like you’re in the clear. I haven’t thought about the going ahead/went ahead construction much. I loosely associate it with managerial talk. It does sound to my ears very subtly disingenuous. Now it’s my turn to be on the lookout for this. Cheers

permo-w 3y ago

the tiktok voice is quite valley girl, and I’m not sure there’s a more annoying sound around on the other hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM

WorldMaker 3y ago

Uptalk evolved to fill a social niche and is related to dialects/sociolects that commonly use "right?" or "eh?" to inter-punctuate sentences without using such filler words. (Admittedly, Valleyspeak is partly best known for different filler words so there was, like, no space for inter-punctuating sentences.) One article on the subject: https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/the-real-purpose-of-uptalk-is-to-make-you-shut-up-and-listen.html https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/the-real-purpose-of-uptalk-is...