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

[HappenstanceMarmite]

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

Maid I'm with you. I'm usually a purist but I quite like the tone a question mark creates at the end of a statement.

I have steerable habit of doing that?

And I can't type for shit?

Crazybaglady?

Australian inflection?

Australian inflection?

It's the rising inflexion in bloody written form.

I do this sometimes. I do it to show that I'm not sure if the statement I'm making I correct in a sort of informal way. I didn't know it created such irritation!

I don't think I would do it in a work email though ?

'I do it to show that I'm not sure if the statement I'm making is correct in a sort of informal way'

Bloody phone

Almost everyone Iwork with does this. They are mostly Americans, with a few English Southerners thrown in. Even my Swedish colleague has caught it. I don't like it, but I think I'm swimming against the tide. I've heard loads of interviewees on R4 and 5 doing it too, some quite senior folk.

I'm with MaidofStars on this. It is an acceptable format to add a question mark to the end of a sentence that doesn't contain a 'question' word. You can also leave question marks off sentence that contain question words and be grammatically correct.

Though maybe you don't mean that?

No Moln I didn't mean as per the examples you've given which, I agree, are grammatically correct ? It is more this sort of nonsense:
"I would suggest prescribing X course of action?"

Just shuddered writing that 😳

I think I might do it occasionally?

But I really don't mean to?

Good God I've only ever heard the rising inflection in speech, I had no idea people were putting it in writing as well.
I would have to pull them on it .

Hmmm I see; inserting a question mark randomly is weird (and wrong). Though your example I'd read that as someone offering and idea of advice where they feel there could well be factors their suggestion null and void. The question mark alludes to the question:

"I would suggest prescribing X course of action, unless there's Y and Z that means X couldn't occur. Is that the case here?"