AIBU to hate when people add ',no?' to the end of sentences!

[HappyGirlNow]

I may well be and I'm finding it hard to articulate why I hate it but loads of posters do this and I find it exceptionally annoying! It's just not how English sentences should be structured!

Examples: 'But it's cold there this time of year, no?'
'You should have said something at the time, no?'

AIBU???

I sometimes start my sentences with 'yeah', and end them with 'no'? Who knew it would cause so much angst and rage eh? .

Yanbu

I hate this, it is so very affected and usually patronizing.

Or perhaps just a speech pattern, no?

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It's stylish, no?

Also:
Wollen Sie ein Stuck Kuchen, oder?

Threads like this, that pick apart how people choose to post are tres annoying and, like, soooo 2013, no?

I sometimes use 'no?' at the end of a sentence (in type). I sometimes start with 'erm, no'. There are probably lots of other things I use that people don't like.

I really couldn't care less what annoys other people about my posting.

As long as I'm not being disablist/racist/sexist why does it even matter?

yy Whiskwarrior. A thousand txtspk posts with no punctuation before the next casually discriminatory post, plskthx.

Never heard it used at all - maybe it's a southern thing?
What winds me up is " like". . My 8 year old asked me yesterday if there was any like Chocolate? What the frick is like chocolate???????
Also, it gets used instead os said or thought.
" so she was like ......." And I was like...."
Aaaaaaaahhhhhgggggggggggg!!!!

I don't like it when people add the word "right" at the end of every sentence.
I think it sounds quite threatening to be honest. xx

I do this. Every Jewish person I know does this actually, as in Yiddish you often end sentences with "nu?", so I guess it's just turned into "no" and passed down the generations a bit....

It's just a French question tag. Therefore annoying if you're not continental, no? Yanbu.

Actually, I think it depends on your jawline....Jennifer Anniston had her hair plaited around the hairline and it aged her hugely.

I hate this too. Hard to articulate why, but I think it is that it sounds patronising, to a comically extreme degree. It looks like it is meant to give whoever it is addressed to some friendly encouragement to speak. So it suggests that others need that encouragement and will feel flattered and empowered by it. But at the same time it is also saying "Am I not right? Are you really going to disagree with me?" -- so it is friendly encouragement to speak, but only to speak in approval.

I think if the graciously condescending Lady Catherine De Bourgh from Pride and Prejudice were alive today she would use this way of speaking, no?

Ah man, I have been deleted, even though I was just picking up on use of a horrible word.

That's makes me a bad ass, yes?

yy to the 'no' thing.
Also people who end sentences with "blah blah blah blah blah, yah?" (sound is somewhere between yuh and yah)
yyyyy to the children starting sentences with basically.

But most of all, the apparent loss of the phrases "he said" or "I said". "So he was like, blah blah blah, and I was like, blah blah blah, and he was like blah, blah, blah..." Unfuckingbearable.

More annoying is people who don't bother their arses to read a whole thread through and see why silly little threads like this are childish and a waste of space.

No?

Mating thread, Ferguson, no?

Mating? I meant wrong.

Good lord whiskwarrior. Do you mean that your contribution is so definitive that no one else should bother to comment? Or is it some other post on the thread that you think should have been the final word?

Mating??? Fantastic autocorrect!

ButThereAgain - well, I wasn't actually speaking specifically to you. I just find threads like this unnecessary and ten-a-penny.

Just a not-so-subtle way for people to have a dig at others.

Yawn (I know people hate that too)

Oh well never mind Whiskwarrior, perhaps you can get in earlier next time.

It's a very White British-centric thread. Totally misses the point that there are lots and lots of cultures and languages in which this type of sentence construction is normal and that people from those cultures and speaking those languages are translating those sentence constructions into English. Even if it's ancestral, as in my Yiddish example.

I don't even know what you mean by that to be honest whichdidyouchoose

sittingagain... your post is absolutely NO kind of deterrent!

TheBigJessie... I found myself nodding at your post, my mum's family are Austrian and this is entirely usual conversation.