To want to stab middle aged women who upspeak

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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!

What is upspeaking?

What's 'upspeaking'?

What is upspeak?

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I don't know what it is either.

You mean the Aussie inflection thing?

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.

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

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

Yes Nancy.

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!

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

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

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.

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

march because they should know better!!!

Maybe they're Australian?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.