upward intonation??????

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I'm new to this site but love the rants I've read so far! One I just seen is re the word 'literally' being used in a bonkers way. Agree totally. But would like to add my utter hatred of the creeping in to the British accent of a Neighbours/Californian way of ending every sentence in an upward style. Drives me crazy. It's all UP???? Please make it stop!

Oh - I hate this too! But sometimes it can be used genuinely when you are questioning and then you sound like a teenager .

I got very annoyed at The Apprentice's Natasha and her constant "Yeah?" after every statement. I wanted to slap her with a wet fish after about 2 episodes.

We are taking over the world you know.

Is a bloodless coup.

Soon you will all be BBQing everything and driving commodores...

Morloth I didn't know you were Welsh?

The worst is I'm like instead of I said. Where the hell did that come fron?

LOL- Welsh and guilty as charged!!

I once overheard a conversation where the people they were talking about "turned round and..." so much that I imagined them disappearing up their own bum falling over!

My friend does this. I find I have to answer her even when it's not a question but a statement. Her tone demands it.

And another friend does it in typing - she uses ????? When she means !!!!! So even when I read the words I can hear the intonation. Drives me bonkers.

Just reading this thread has put me in a bad mood. The sloany croaky drawl is particularly irritating - pretending to be board with everything!
I cannot BEAR Jafaken accents either. My friend's daft 17 year old chubby white son starts channelling Rastamouse when he wants to sound cool. He's from Bedford and has never even met anyone from the Caribbean.

Oh those Jafakan accents. DD's boyfriend speaks like that. He lives in Sevenoaks, how comes he speaks like that?

Well, my DCs all speak like that, but they are Kiwis after all, and teenage girls seem to be the worst...here in NZ they call it the HRT (high rising terminal).

I've got used to the "every sentence is a question" thing that Kiwis and Aussies do, but can someone tell me why people do it when they are writing as well? Now that does drive me nuts?

I hate it too! I work in a call centre and it bugs me so much when I can hear people doing it around me.

We had a training session recently where we had to record a fake call. My partner told me I do this. She genuinely couldn't tell the difference - I do it when I am actually asking a question!

My sister does this. She claims it is because she lives in Spain most of the time and inflection is the only way of making it clear you're asking a question.

Most of the time she isn't asking a question and I desperately want to slap her.