AIBU to feel inner rage when I hear the rising inflection?

[Morgause]

Otherwise known as the high rising terminal.

It used to just mildly annoy me but now I have to dig my nails into my palms to stop myself shouting at people who use it when I'm with them.

I don't want to get a grip I want people to stop doing it.

Everyone at my uni did it. I wanted to cry on a daily basis. YAnBU.

Don't come to Australia - it's endemic !

• its like? Everything is a like question ? And like kinda? Americanized?

YANBU

I detest it too. Is it from people growing up watching shite Oz soaps?

If I'm in a meeting listening to it, it sets my teeth off.

YANBU I remember Stephen Fry asking it be put in room 101. Hate it hate it hate it.

I'm reassured.

The most annoying one is in that No No advert. She's American and in need of a slap.

YANBU

It's utterly meaningless, robs conversation of interest and turns everything into sing-song blandness.

Why do I have no idea what anyone's talking about?

Can someone explain it to me?

Writer you're not the only one, I'm confused

Cultural habits they don't like.

One of the cultural things I don't like about the British is passion for moaning about truly petty stuff.

I do it unintentionally having lived with an Australian for over ten years and I previously lived in the States . Judge me if you will, it's just a side effect of our international families, lives and media.

My dh started to do it. Every single sentence. I had the rage and said, "Are you asking a question? No. SO STOP IT!"

It's when your voice rises at the end of a statement, the way it would naturally when you're asking a question.

Explains it nicely.

One of the cultural things I don't like about the British is passion for moaning about truly petty stuff

Totally agree, HolidayCriminal.

However this is a very important matter.

I can't stand it, I was moaning at DD for doing it yesterday and said "Are you telling me or asking me a question?" Couple of hours later I said something to her and must have done the very same thing without realising as smug DD replied "Are you telling me or asking me a question?" Didn't have the heart to tell her off .

I also hate the way people feel the need to pepper their conversation with 'fillers' these days - "it was you know like sort of blah and kind of well blah and basically blah blah." Everyone you hear interviewed from minor to celebs and footballers to politicians and the younger royals seem to do this and it drives me bonkers. I appreciate I probably need to get a life.

YADNBU. It's just so, so wrong in several ways. I had an Aussie temp working with me recently who did this and utterly drove me nuts, as it did with a visiting friend who emigrated to Oz years ago.

yy, and re fillers, what about the loss of the word 'said', replaced by "I was, like,"

My 8 year old does it. Hoping it is a phase...

I feel an inner rage when people say 'cheers' instead of thanks, in speech or in e-mails.

It's cultural, innit?

My son is doing this right now.

I HATE it

Just ask him to finish his sentence. Every time. That will break him of it.\

As for cheers instead of thanks . . . no, I'd better not say what I would do with them.

Yeah, imagine your son is now CEO of BigbigITCo and giving the end of year figures for profit loss.

Errrrr, no, if he talked like that he wouldn't be CEO of Bigbig.......in fact he might even not get a job as cleaner at Bigbig if the speech habit annoyed the interviewer!

Um, Brits do this too, don't they? Only they cleverly disguise it by putting an actual question on the end--doesn't he, innit, am I right, etc. Conversation filler, anyone?

I find it annoying.

But worse, it's spreading to the written word. For question marks are appearing on sentences which aren't questions.

I nearly wrote a completely inapposite answer to a post, because I thought the poster was asking a question when actually it was just a statement.

I find it annoying?