My AQI theory: people have gotten used to saying "You know?" after each sentance, to make sure they're being understood. Now they have stopped saying it, but the question remains in the voice inflection. You know?
Very possible. But I haven't heard it up North but only from Southerners. But up North we always ask "Know what I mean?" etc. Albeit questions like that in a Northern accent are rarely intonated like questions anyway. It often all sounds like a statement. The opposite of AQI.
My gmother was always saying "You see" at the end of a sentence. Nowadays particularly men of a certain race say "yeah" at the end of each saying or response, presumably to enforce the remark
Aurelie-Anne Gilly Unless they're drafting Australians to do all the shit jobs for little or no pay while pretending to be acquiring skills necessary to future success...
I was in a pub a while ago and there was a young guy on the phone to a friend. Every other word was Facebook or Twitter. I swear some people couldn't even exist without social media.
It's far from a good thing to have a generation of non assertive individuals. That's a death knell of any society. You need assertive, strong individuals to have a strong, assertive society and civilisation.
