I can assure you that the Valley Girl upspeak is much more of a threat than The Fry.

It's already invaded Australia.

 

Australians often sound like they're asking a question because of a linguistic feature called "Australian Question Intonation" (AQI), where they naturally raise their pitch at the end of a sentence, even when making a statement, giving the impression of a question; this can be interpreted as a way to convey politeness, uncertainty, or a desire for confirmation from the listener. 

 

Everything they say sounds like a question. 😃

10 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Does anybody still recall when, many decades ago....

 

American Girls were just so good?

 

Whatever happened to those American girls?

 

Care to take a guess?

 

 

Married, divorced, Bonbons, then bitter? 

11 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

 

This Topic is about California FRY.....and not....

 

California fire, or fires.

 

Please don your reading glasses.

 

Thank you!

 

 

Well, I think you will find that the fire (fry) in California has already fried quite a lot of stuff, including 11 people. In fact I thought the title referred to this much more important current issue! So let's be charitable and say I was misled!

29 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:

Well, I think you will find that the fire (fry) in California has already fried quite a lot of stuff, including 11 people. In fact I thought the title referred to this much more important current issue! So let's be charitable and say I was misled!

 

Sorry.

Next time, I will say what I mean.

 

1 hour ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Everything they say sounds like a question.

It's a brilliant ploy. That way if anyone ever fact-checks them, or accuses them of disinformation, they can claim, "I wasn't stating facts, I was asking questions". 

2 hours ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

GG - what about the alarming trend of using "like" as filler in speech?

 

Are people terrified of dead air?

 

Of pauses?

 

Of reflection?

 

Is "space" in speech (or  music, or visual art for that matter) best avoided?

 

New topic.

 

You're welcome.

 

"Some people have an aversion to silence, as if a moment uncluttered by words is an opportunity lost forever."  Matt Braun-El Paso 

14 minutes ago, roo860 said:

 

 

Priceless.

 

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Priceless.

 

I've had to tone my accent down, American friends couldn't understand me.

The two undecipherable accents I've found impossible to understand enough to even try to converse is:

A full on Scottish brogue 

A full on Cajun accent

22 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Absolutely agree with you but it is not just Californians, it's spreading all over the place and made even worse by the addition of moronic upspeaking that turns every statement into a question.

I much prefer that intonation as its as if asking your opinion therefore addressing you as an equal rather than talking down to you with a Hollywood movie hero ego-laden arrogant intonation which is what usually comes over when speaking with US citizens especially the men. That's why it's so hard to like them ....even the nice ones.

WTF has this got to do with Thailand?

7 hours ago, SunsetT said:

WTF has this got to do with Thailand?

 

This is the Pub. Topics are not limited to Thailand.