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To me, speaking in uptalk is almost like you're taking the other person for an idiot. For instance: "I went down the road [if you've heard of that?], and I bought these trousers [if you've heard of that?], and they were really expensive [if you've heard of that?]." Or rather: "I went down the road, I bought these trousers and they were really expensive." (i.e. if anything I've said is unclear, you'll tell me.) I know it's partly just the way language usage changes over the decades. But I'm from the old school (to an extent) and I don't use much uptalk.
A friend of mine, who I've known for 30 years visited last month. In telling a story, every sentence sounded like a question. Really annoying--when did this start? Then I remembered he's been living in Southern California for the last ten years.
If anything is going to clarify your lack of IQ, it's uptalk. In fact it's a red flag within so many corporations to not hire these people, they are not full adults. The only thing they are suited to is tick tock and humble brag videos.
Its a form of manipulation... and like plastic surgery or perfect teeth, a signal to others, of your status... its very white albeit popular w business class people of color now as well...we are programmed to respond to questions if someone is lacing in a question every few words by the end of a paragraph you've been hit with a dozen or more questions that have no answer. Narcissists use rapid questioning to break down targets, interrogaters use it to wear down suspects, and parents use it to dominate. It's one of the more subtle transitions to our modetnity that is sewn into our subconcious and yet insidious as it Fly's under the radar but do not doubt its impact. Yet anothet handmedown from an ever increasing corporate hierarchy...sad because it destroys language and communication... anti intellectualism wins again and should be called down talk because that's its true function
There's a scene in The Big Bang Theory that focuses on uptalk. It's when Leonard meets Sheldon for the first time: Sheldon (asking a question): "What is the 6th noble gas?" Leonard: "Radon?" Sheldon (looking puzzled): "Are you asking me or telling me?" Leonard: "Telling you?" [Sheldon looks even more annoyed] Leonard: "Telling you." Sheldon: "All right."
Thanks for the demonstration of uptalk applied to a male supremacist quote from history (all MEN are created equal). They two are connected, btw. Women of all races, at the time of the Gettysburg address, were the legal chattel of their husbands and fathers under common law coverture. Uptalk is how women today communicate submission in a world that still gaslights any woman behaving as though she has equal humanity and legal rights to men. Post-Traumatic Coverture Syndrome.
Disagree strongly... it's not submission at all it's taking control of the conversation it's forcing The Listener to pay attention but also creating a situation where they never have an answer thus empowering the person using it I wish it was only women... in the corporate World everyone is using it except for the CEO and other officers but even CFOs and TAs... everyone in HR... its supposed to sound submissive and friendly but its anything but
Great video. I had a few flocks of hummng birds two different species and about 60 - 80 that came to my yard when I lived in Eatonville, WA in 2017. The women who lived in the house I took over, had created a wonderful place for them to come and live. I had about 4-6 feeders. I wish I was the person I am today because I could have been more of a watcher, they made nests in the trees and were such a joy to participate in all day. This was in the middle of a National forest. It was amazing. Now, I am in my new home and forest, ready to set up the yard for birds, and started researching, and joined The Audubon Society. Thanks for the fresh inspiration to buy hummingbird feeders this weekend.
@dan74695 well, if you think so then you have never experienced uptalk in the real world or otherwise you're being deliberately ignorant. This is like saying Kevin Costner had a wonderful British accent in Robin Hood.
It’s sooo annoying, like every sentence is a question. There’s also another voice, how people on tiktok videos speak, it’s up and down and sing songy, much faster than normal speech too. I hate it all!
At last! Birds that actually look as though they can fly! I have your books but like the update on basic shapes. Thank you for sharing your continuing learning evolution. I am going to be busy practicing!
Uptalk: Sounds like a soyboy unsure of himself when a man does it, and like a teenage girl who doesn't care and isn't thinking when a woman does it. Thanks for the lesson. This should be a RU-vid short, because it's 40 seconds long. Will be useful for all the idiots scrolling through shorts.
Thank you for sharing. Apparently this is a rising accent on RU-vid, TikTok and other social media outlets. This “uptalk” is starting to creep its way into conversations with others. I find it utterly annoying.
Uptalking is so pervasive now that I wonder when people who don't uptalk will be criticized in performance evaluations as "talking too flatly" and not uptalking.
WONDERFUL wings talk. I’ll never see bird’s wings the same way again… this will be invaluable when I’m trying to figure out the bird’s wings and sketching them
8 years in the future and it's worse than ever... RU-vid has become a hellscape of "the downfall of--" and "retrospective" videos with gen z narrators tormenting us with upspeak.
