To want to stab middle aged women who upspeak

[PessaryPam]

I think I'm right on this but DH says I am being unreasonable. It makes my teeth itch listening to them, I cannot hear what they are saying because I am waiting for the next inappropriate voice rise. There was one on R4 a few minutes ago and I had to turn her off.

It's bad enough when young people do it, usually with a load of 'like's thrown in for good measure.

God I hate dieting after Christmas!

[MrsHelsBels74]

What is upspeaking?

[AnnieMated]

What's 'upspeaking'?

[Spatsky]

What is upspeak?

[Spatsky]

Oops crossed posts

[PixieHot]

I don't know what it is either.

[Nancy66]

You mean the Aussie inflection thing?

[PessaryPam]

Its where the voice rises at the end of a sentence as if in question but there isn't a question. It came originally from the Australian soap Neighbours I think and caught on amongst younger people in the UK. Once you notice it it drives you mad.

[AnnieMated]

Ah, good - glad I'm not the only one who has not a clue what OP means...

[Mitchy1nge]

all middle aged women should be stabbed, what is the point of them anyway?

[PessaryPam]

Yes Nancy.

[marchwillsoonbehere]

Well from the context I think upspeaking is when you make any sentence sound like a question.

Tremendously irritating, but I am at a loss as to why you find it more irritating on middle aged woman than on anyone else!

[Nancy66]

yes, it's annoying no matter what the age. Becoming more and more common in the uk though.

[PessaryPam]

Mitchy, we are the repositories of wisdom. You need us even if you don't know it yet.

[AnnieMated]

Where do you live OP so you've noticed this? Can't say I have and I'm in the very heartlands of middle-classness here in the SE.

[Spatsky]

Can't say it's ever entered my consciousness...

[PessaryPam]

march because they should know better!!!

[scarletforya]

Maybe they're Australian?

[Songbird]

My neighbour does this - v annoying! And Darcey frickin Bussell on Strictly!

[cozietoesie]

The Antipodean Rising Inflection. (Or, sometimes, Interrogative Inflection.)

[megandraper]

Isn't that standard Brummie speak? Was when I was a child (back in the distant depths of time). But then I'm middle-aged.

[Trills]

YABU to restrict your stabbing to middle-aged women.

If it is annoying then it is also annoying when done by young women, old women, and men of all ages.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Not sure about stabbing them but it is a wildly irritating speech pattern!

[PessaryPam]

Annie, it was on R4 a few minutes agao, I think at the start of You and Yours. Don't know what she was talking about because I had to turn her off.

I am in Bucks and people round here don't do it apart from the youngsters.

[HolofernesesHead]

Why is it particularly irritating when middle-aged women do it?

[RuleBritannia]

I don't like it when my granddaughter has that inflection at the end of a sentence when she's telling me something. Why? Because it's as if she's asking me if I understand what she's saying.