Our son did it for a while as a tween and several educators and others suggested speech therapy. It is a bad habit that should be curtailed ASAP. Fortunately our son "grew out of it" with just coaching from us and a caring teacher. I suspect many kids aren't even aware they are doing it until it's pointed-out to them.

A woman I know ends almost every written sentence with a question mark, and talks that way to some extent as well. It's irritating as all hell and as an educated professional she must know better but has chosen to communicate in this way. It's not my duty to "save her" from looking like a fool so I haven't brought it up, but it's hard to believe her close family or friends have not confronted her over the years.

"I know. Right?"

Makes my blood boil! It's even worse when people write it just like that.

Lord have mercy that one drives me insane.

:mad:

I don't know if I'm just intolerant or other people are just stupid lol.

Yeah that one makes me want to smack someone

This used to annoy me.

Now standard response is, "No, I don't know."

Stupid brainless stare insues

Kids are a product of their environment, dontcha know?

Someone comes up to you and says...."Ummmmm"....then silence. Like waiting on the other shoe to drop. Get yer thoughts together before you open yer piehole....

Ummmmm is a not a word.

And there's also an alarming trend of people in business settings beginning all answers with the word "so." It's an immediate credibility killer.

Oh yeah....."basically".........

It seems to me that that the English language is too tough for most people, too many words that folks don't understand. Dictionary?? That's the thing under the modem. Americans are a bunch of sheep when it comes to our language. If there is a NEW expression, people climb over one another to use the "Cool" redundant/ tired or new expression "Ya Think? When I hear that, to me, it means you are a dumb **** and the speaker is helping you understand. I guess DUH has lost traction/popularity. Maybe it is the spelling. if you can dig that? (Bonehead; left out but implied). Too many smart people out there for me. I'll just use Pidgin, the next "hot thing".

A lot of Delta FA's are up-talking while making announcements on the planes these days. Its catching on and growing pretty quickly. I HATE listening to it.

YES! I dig Shark Tank and hear this from the contestants ALOT.

"Ok, so what we did is......"

argh

They're all bad / weird / annoying / unnecessary but personally I'd rather listen to "up talk", silly Canadian "eh?" suffixes, valley girl speak, NYC / Brooklyn "macho" talk or even southern drawl over the northeast / Boston accent. Nasal, dry and a complete inability to pronounce the letter "r" (which if you study speech development in kids is one of the last sounds kids learn to make, suggesting most people here never advanced beyond a seven or eight year-old level speech-wise). If a stupider, more annoying or more credibility-destroying accent / dialect ever existed I have not come across it. It's hard to take anyone seriously who sounds like that. My $0.02.

That post was "Epic."

Seriously?

"So" - many people here start their posts with "so". I am sure they are nice people ANYWAY. :)

If you think "eh" is different you should listen to my Newfie friend talk.

Like "yes boy", which is actually "yes B'y". Depending on the inflection he's either agreeing with you, acknowledging what you said, his surprise or he's saying you're full of poop.
I've had to warn some of my black friends that it's nothing to do with race, he does it to everyone.

There are just too many newfie sayings to list, do a google search on newfie slang. ;)

BTW his wife is from Dildo. :D

I've always thought of upward inflection at the end of a sentence to be a passive-aggressive means of condescension, used by people with self perceived broad base of knowledge, but little confidence, and low self esteem.

It is annoying. I have to make a concerted effort to listen beyond just hearing the words when I'm being spoken to in that manner.

Where I grew up, they would have said, ''She comes from up Dildo.''.

Jeese, Bubs, was also a common expression, as was AYAH. Ayah, Bub.

It could always be worse.

What HAVE you come across, Mr O'phile ? ;) Ever come across anyone from up Dildo ?

I've even heard young TV and radio personalities doing that? I never knew what it was called?