Up talking. I never knew what it was called. God I hate it. Seems like a 20 something thing. Its really annoying with women. Its like nails on a chalk board when I hear men do it. WHY!?

Don't you mean:

I feel your pain?

Even more annoying IMHO is the manner of speaking some women use which seems like they aren't pushing enough air across their vocal cords, resulting in a buzz-like sound that literally drives me bananas.

First world problem for sure--but every time I hear someone speak like this I have to turn away immediately. It's as though they're actually trying to sound annoying on purpose.

The blonde on Criminal Minds is a prime example of this---

Fran Dresher

The term for this is vocal fry.

"I'm going to go ahead and..."
"Why don't you go ahead and..."

Drives me nuts. Why don't you say what you're going to do, and not "go ahead and" say what you're going to do? The people who use it can drop it five times in as many minutes.

...we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B...So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff...

So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that'd be great.

I'm gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow.

Ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too...

Now, are you going to go ahead and have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?

- Office Space

Is "Like I say" (pronounced as one word) common anywhere else or is it just an Ohio thing? My doctor even used to use it. "Likeasay, go ahead and take one of these pills a day."

That seems to be a sort of manipulation. A mandate disguised as permission.

"So, you know, we went up to the moun-ehns? And we saw these cute ki-ehns?"

I am sitting in a meeting with a vendor today. Every other sentance is with an upards inflection? Like he's giving us facts and details but posing it to us as a question?

F*** this is so annoying. I almost want to vocal coach him.