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.

Best not come to Norfolk or the Fens, then! It's part of our accent. It is, in fact, the reason why Austrailians have the same thing, due to a huge influx of Ely and Littleport rioters some time ago!

'innit' is turning into 'n'est-ce pas?' isn't it?

Yanbu
We had uni students in work on a placement and one of them said to me that they were doing this thing to test their eyes. She said it like I might have never heard of eyes before.
So patronising!

Hate it.
Also hate statements with "no?" or "non?" at the end - not uncommon on MN.
As for people who say "no problem" after you've thanked them, or use "myself" and "yourself" incorrectly...

I find this happens a lot with 'Okay.'

I hate it!

You total total bastards.

I have never noticed this.

Now I just know my day will be filled with it!

YY to the fillers though!

Yes, I don't like "so" as the opening word. It implies that you should know what's going on and feels as though you've entered mid conversation.

Americanisms which we pick up from tv imo.

DS says 'Can I get a....' when ordering food, in posh restaurant or anywhere, he refuses to say 'May I have a.....' .

Grrrr.

I heard this years ago and was told it was because a certain generation of us spent there formative years watching neighbours and home and away Scott and Charlene have a lot to answers for!!

My 10 year old dd uses this all the time, sounds vague and singsongy but they must all be doing it. I haven't got the heart to point it out to her, I'd rather she remained confident in speaking out than started to get self-conscious about chatting to people.

Coke is soda, soverylucky. Or pop, depending where you live in the US. However not all soda is Coke, and people who say 'Coke' to mean any fizzy sugared commercially available non-alcoholic drink are the ones who annoy me.

Incidentally, it's Canadians who have the rising inflection? Not Americans, eh?

I am trying to stop my eldest son from doing this. It drives me insane. I keep asking him why he wants everything to sound like a question.

I hate this! Especially being from hull, we have the most boring accent and then somebody will say something along the lines of "and it was like, so interest--ing?'"
It just sounds so wrong!

Also noticed that most of my friends who moved to a different city to study at university did it a lot more, and also changed their accent, so now they sound part posh with hints of 'Jon sneeeer' dotted in here and there!

Everything else I'm totally guilty of!

No, some Americans have that even more annoying habit of talking like a six year old with an ickle baby voice as though someone is sitting on their voicebox...also the woman in the Trivago add that not only talks like a child but rolls around in a bed/bath like an ickle girl. Trivago need to re-dors their ads to appeal to the niche market obviously

Re-dors? What does that mean?

You are so not being unreasonable?

oh fuck, fuck , fuck... now I am thinking with a rising inflection it is so infective...

Exactly sovery my seven year old wants me to put out the trash and thought our currency was dollers !!

Yanbu

One of my housemates at university spoke like that (she was not Australian). The conversations we had often became confusing, I would think she was asking a question and she would be wondering why I kept "interrupting" her.

It was a trying time.

I must point out that you're not even supposed to use it for all questions, only closed ones (yes/no questions), if a question starts with an interrogative word (wh-) then the intonation should go down at the end.

DH has a knack for picking up languages and accents...

By the end of our holiday with large percentage canadians, he'd started speaking like thiiis^

Like everything is a question. Argh.

I use like, like too much. I'm young, you're just like, jealous of my youth

X2boys , my son said 'lever' (rhyming with ever) and i told him we say leever. He learnt it lever to rhyme with ever and that is how he continues to say it. My fault, he was watching Pop! He heard jillian michaels on dvd workouts talking about lever crunches not leever crunches!

In forty years we will all have american accents. Roll with it folks!

YY to 'no problem' and 'can I get' instead of 'may I have'!

My personal worst is when people who are serving you in a restaurant say 'not a problem' when you order. I should hope it's not a problem, thank you very much.