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Annoying voices

Hope

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.

Parents

  • I can't stand contrived voices!. I know someone who says 'yaars' instead of 'yes', and it is to sound relaxed, casual or cool, but it has the opposite effect!. I also think the word 'really' is overused, such as 'really?, really?', each time said at a different pitch. It is as if they  are not taking the speaker seriously, even if this is my gloss on it.

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  • I can't stand contrived voices!. I know someone who says 'yaars' instead of 'yes', and it is to sound relaxed, casual or cool, but it has the opposite effect!. I also think the word 'really' is overused, such as 'really?, really?', each time said at a different pitch. It is as if they  are not taking the speaker seriously, even if this is my gloss on it.

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  • in reply to Hope

    Back around 1977, our high school's drama teacher had a one-day exercise, in which each of her students were to try to get through a day saying only one word,  I still remember the year before, when one of my friends would only say "Really," with various tones.  A year later, when I took the class, I realized what he had been doing.

    I would never do that to others, unless I was assigned that exercise.  I understand a word can be overused. :-)