Lilting speaking voices

My name is URL

Has anyone else noticed this is becoming more widespread? Where the pitch of people's voices gets higher towards the end of each sentence..?

Why do people do this? It's difficult to take them seriously when they speak like that.. it sounds so contrived and insincere.

It's even worse than the D4 accent imo.. does my head in!

bonerm

Haven't noticed it. I'm just sick of the number of 16-year-old Yanks washing up on our shores.

FearDark

Anyone else read OP's post like this?

TanG411

Yeah I have two friends who do that high pitched voice while they're telling a story. It sounds too American, almost like they're putting it on.

Does my head in. I just tell them 'When did you last go to *Insert North American State*?. I usually say California.

Donkey Oaty

"High rising terminal", linguists call it. It was one of Stephen Fry's choices for Room 101.

Terry

I haven't heard it, but I have seen it in written form here on boards in the form of a question mark at the end of a statement?

Just like that.

easyeason3

Jedward are fcukers for talking like that.

In fact, they're just fcukers for talking at all.

Craggy Island

Thats the problem. They're not Yanks. They're Irish. I believe it started out in Dublin. It's now spread across the whole country. Possibly came from watching too many episodes of "Friends" on tv.
Anyone remember in American pie where the girl said, " and there was this one time at band camp, I stuck a flute in........" Very hard to listen to i think.
Hope it hasn't made it into the primary schools yet. Is it a result of insecurity ,or just wanting to be like who they see on tv?.


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bonerm

Craggy Island wrote: »

My first ever post ever on Boards.

Like, that is SOOOOO random?

PaddyBomb

FearDark wrote: »

Anyone else read OP's post like this?

Hahaha I couldn't help meself from reading it all like that.

easyeason3

bonerm wrote: »

Like, that is SOOOOO random?

OMG!!!!!

easyeason3

easyeason3 wrote: »

OMG!!!!!

No. It's Oh-Em-Gee.

Someone once asked me if I wanted a Dee-Em-Cee once. I'm still not entirely sure what I was asked.

WindSock

Ah the Aussie style diminished responsibility unsurity inclination? It's like a question? So you have to say yeah? As in an agreement with the statement disguised as a question?

bonerm

WindSock wrote: »

Ah the Aussie style diminished responsibility unsurity inclination? It's like a question? So you have to say yeah? As in an agreement with the statement disguised as a question?

I prefer the term moronic interrogative

My name is URL

Do people not realise how ridiculous they sound while talking like that? My sister is the worst for it, she's one of them backpacker vegetarian types too, which is equally as annoying. I thought she picked it up while in Australia or something but I know people who have never left ireland who are starting to speak this way

Terry

My name is URL wrote: »

Do people not realise how ridiculous they sound while talking like that? My sister is the worst for it, she's one of them backpacker vegetarian types too, which is equally as annoying. I thought she picked it up while in Australia or something but I know people who have never left ireland who are starting to speak this way

Pics?

ibarelycare

A lot of nordies talk like that, but with them it's even worse. It sounds like they're asking ? a question ? every few ? words?

Craggy Island

bonerm wrote: »

Like, that is SOOOOO random?

That is like so random and stuff like ahah.

Millicent

Can work on the odd occasion... :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pbou_r7ODs

Thoie

Deleted User wrote: »

No. It's Oh-Em-Gee.

Someone once asked me if I wanted a Dee-Em-Cee once. I'm still not entirely sure what I was asked.

Are you sure they didn't say D and C?

Mr Benevolent

Australians all talk like this. It's a throwback to their ancestors being castrated after buggering the local females.

KaiserMc

Did this start in Cork ?..I live two counties away from there and in the last year a few of them have started to speak like this with a cork accent..one of the ways we combat this speech impediment is to ignore the speaker when they go high pitched at the end of the sentence,seems to confuse them when you sit there and say nothing after being given your CUE to talk..works best if you have a newspaper or remote control in hand.

Saft Hans

Deleted User wrote: »

Someone once asked me if I wanted a Dee-Em-Cee once. I'm still not entirely sure what I was asked.

DMC= Deep Meaningful Conversation, I've mainly noticed it in the Australian soaps.:mad: