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It's worth reading this piece for context. Reactions to uptalk can belie underlying prejudices. http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/12/16/uptalk_is_o
by aupajo 12y ago
It's worth reading this piece for context. Reactions to uptalk can belie underlying prejudices. http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/12/16/uptalk_is_okay_young_women_shouldn_t_have_to_talk_like_men_to_be_taken_seriously.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/12/16/uptalk_...
- Mithaldu 12y agoI read it and got this far: > But even if women did uptalk more than men, we've all > heard enough uptalk to know that its rising intonation > doesn't indicate a question. No one's actually confused. And as well-meaning as Marybeth Seitz-Brown might be, i do not appreciate the insinuation that i am lying when i, as a foreigner, state that i hate HRT* in men, women, americans, australians, anyone because it fucks with my parsing of spoken english, which is already one of hardest-to-parse languages on this planet. Should i read further? Does she at any point acknowledge that i might be saying the truth? * It's the only thing too, i don't mind excessive "like" usage, high-pitched voices, gravely voices, rednecks.