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Annoying voices

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Are you irritated by some accents/voice intonations? I think I have posted before about this, but I have an extreme aversion to 'up-talk' or the high-rise terminal (HRT). Teenagers, particularly girls, speak like this a lot, but so do many 20 and 30 somethings now. Every statement is spoken as if it were a question, giving off an air of uncertainty, as if they expect you to disagree with them. As someone with Aspergers, I like certainty and formal speech, but up-talk leaves me feeling confused and unclear. I get stressed when people talk like this, and end up not believing what they say, because it is so vague. I understand that language and accents change, but I can't help opposing up-talk. It goes against the way my brain is wired: certainty is replaced by endless questions, which are not meant to be questions.

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  • People who talk Chinese sound to me like they are in a panic, Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Russian and Italian and Portuguese sound like they are being obnoxious, Indian and Pakistani Urdu accents are just plain irritating like someone saying rubbadubbadub at differing volumes - I don't know if it's the actual accent or just the way they speak, many of the tones go up and down, but Thai, German and Scandanavian accents don't bother me, worst of all is Welsh, god I hate it, it grates.......and when it comes to English I can't hack people who talk like 'dis an dat' - the whole thing is a complete put on - they talk like that because they think it's cool - based on other people on the same lower rung of the evolutionary ladder thinking it's cool.

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  • People who talk Chinese sound to me like they are in a panic, Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Russian and Italian and Portuguese sound like they are being obnoxious, Indian and Pakistani Urdu accents are just plain irritating like someone saying rubbadubbadub at differing volumes - I don't know if it's the actual accent or just the way they speak, many of the tones go up and down, but Thai, German and Scandanavian accents don't bother me, worst of all is Welsh, god I hate it, it grates.......and when it comes to English I can't hack people who talk like 'dis an dat' - the whole thing is a complete put on - they talk like that because they think it's cool - based on other people on the same lower rung of the evolutionary ladder thinking it's cool.

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