People who end sentences with a question mark? When there is no clear question?

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AIBU to fucking hate and judge dislike and disapprove of this trend?

YANBU. Ask them What is your question or Are you asking me or telling me? until they stop. They can kick the habit if they try.

Its called Australian Questionary Inflection. AQI. It's very annoying!

Question marks are so curly, and dotty and attractive though

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YANBU. It drives me mad, too.

As per Andrew's suggestion. Every. Single. Time. Do not let it go even once.

Also drives me nuts.

I have seen an increase in its use in business too. Which I particularly loathe and judge Colleagues using it as a way of appearing to be knowledgable by making a statement. But covering their arses and not taking ownership by ending their "statement" with a bloody question mark!!!

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confuses me a lot, esp from call centre people.

The Rising Inflection is an abomination.

YANBU. Ask them What is your question or Are you asking me or telling me? until they stop

Good plan Andrew. I shall make it so

Dh does this, it drives me mad. Yanbu.

Super annoying, both in speech and written down.
I've noticed, though, that its often done when someone is making a statement about something they're puzzled about, e.g. "I paid the bill, but then they asked for money again today?"
Still wrong and annoying, but I think the question mark is meant to be some sort of implicit "what do you think about that?"

Maybe.

I hate this, and also when people miss off the question mark from the end of a question.

Why on earth do they do that.

Grrrrrr. 'Neighbours' has got a lot to answer for, don't remember its prevalence before then? See what I did there?

Why on earth do they do that.

I find that very amusing?

Fuck Neighbours?

I hate it when people say what they think and then put, no? On the end. So....

Brocollli is a vegetable, no?

Probably grammatically correct but good lord I hate it.

Yy. Emails from work acquaintances that say 'I hope you are well?'

I agree. Very annoying

Should be shot in the head? Or kicked in the balls? Or both?

None of the above are questions, btw, but statements of fucking fact.

I find it more annoying when it's written down. It just seems so sort of arrogant and demanding. And wrong(?).

You need to get a grip OP?

You clearly have very little going on in your life?

And you sound unhinged?

I live and work in Australia and find the AQI is less common than it was, though I've never watched "Neighbours", so no idea if it's alive and kicking there.

What I have noticed is perfectly competent, capable women, and only women, use it when addressing groups of other adults. The pitch of the voice becomes nails-on-the-blackboard high-pitched, too. Its effect is to undermine what they are saying, as statements become questions. I think it's nerves as not one the women does it when speaking one-to-one.

Apparently I sound unhinged?

I have no problem with people using question marks to create a question from a sentence that contains no traditional question words.

I suspect I might be alone on this thread?

Go away? ^