Does Upspeak annoy you?

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Everyone hates it. It is stupid.

Yes it is ridiculous.

I work with a 48 yr old who speaks like this all the time, and we are in a professional setting. It's so distracting, it's hard to pay attention to the content of what she's saying. I ask her constantly if she can just email me stuff, because I can't stand to hear her speak.

It is so goddamn annoying. Are you ending a regular sentence as a question?

YES!!!!!!!!!!

The voice of the third wave.

I'm a Datalounger. Everything annoys me.

YES!!!

Specially if the person in question is older than me. If they are teens or they are in their early twenties, not so much.

I hate it. It's very annoying.

Since it's common on HGTV, which I watch regularly, as soon as I hear one of the sellers or buyers uptalking (or vocal frying) I mute the sound and enable the 'closed captioned.' This way I can at least read what they are saying. But no way am I going to subject myself to that noise.

I also feel sorry for them because they seem completely unaware that they not only come across as stupid, but most people know (at least normal, mature people) that they are a Kardashian wanna-be, imitating those bimbos. Very immature. And stupid. I wish the Kardashians would just die.

It's equally annoying with these people who say, "Riiiiight??" at the end of everything.

MSNBC's recent guest, Emily Jane Fox, upspeaks. She reduces her power because she sounds like a dumbbell. I can't follow what she is talking about because her upspeak is so distracting.

MSNBC doesn't usually have vocal frying upspeakers on their show. There's one other woman besides EJF who appears now and then as a guest but due to her grating baby voice she's insignificant to me and I can't think of her name right now. She has dark hair and doesn't vocal fry. She talks like a 5 yr old little girl. I don't know which is worse; the baby talk, upspeak or vocal fry.

Now men who know better, straight and gay, are doing it. Example: David Greene and Ari Shapiro on NPR.

Emily Jane Jox has the Full Monty of all horrible vocal tics: vocal fry, nasal Kardashian baby voice, uptalk.

^ Yes, I've heard men doing it too. It's much more common among younger women but noticed the men pick it up as well.

They are trashy and sound like dimwits. What are they trying to convey or prove?

Is it that time of the month for the up speak/vocal fry troll to start another thread? Why don't you just look at last month's thread or the one before that or the one before that etc...

By age 27 or so a woman should kill the baby voice and whatever pop culture ticks she's acquired; lower the register and speak more slowly and deliberately.

I can 't listen to it, no one should have to listen to it. Upspeakers should be euthanized.

Those in Ottawa have the misfortune of hearing Jessa Runciman - the 30ish CBC reporter. I bet a lot of straight dads beat off to her kittenish voice.

It is so damned refreshing to hear people speak with determination and eloquence. When the Queen speaks, she is never looking for approval. Just solid flat diction. I think some people are taken back by it. Yet, it is so rare and welcome these days, imo.

And. like, don't get me, like, started on, like. 'like."

YES. When I was last in LA with work, I was having to choke back violent impulses towards my otherwise nice colleagues and their rising inflections. And I'm usually very mild mannered.

Is it a question?! Then stop it!!!!!!