I'd pick fake British any day, though I haven't heard any prominent use.
Valley/Uptalk is the most annoying. Everything is a questionnn. No matter whaatt.
Those are mostly regional accents btw, not generational.
Valley/Uptalk is the most annoying. Everything is a questionnn. No matter whaatt.
Those are mostly regional accents btw, not generational.
That particular affectation seems to have leaked into written text too. Damn annoying.
> Valley/Uptalk is the most annoying.
Add in a vocal fry and you'll have something to torture me with.
This is just a bit of a vent (as a Gen-Z-er myself), because "I feel like" reminded my of something I've noticed in my fellow young peers:
"I was just going to say, <insert statement>." And,
"I was just going to ask, <insert question>."
This makes me sound curmudgeony, but I work with a non-negligible number of people that cannot avoid these constructions in any serious or professional setting. I'll hear it 10+ times in a half-hour meeting. It's so indirect, and I must admit I take the speaker less seriously when I notice it.
Just say the thing! Just ask the thing!
Has anyone else noticed this construction?
(Not 'gen z' but 'millenial', I think, fwiw.)
While I'm here, a similar one that does bug me (but at least for now I only hear Americans saying it, on Youtube or whatever) is 'I'm going to go ahead and [...]' or 'so I just went ahead and [...]' - why do you have to 'go ahead' before you do things over there, is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
I haven’t thought about the going ahead/went ahead construction much. I loosely associate it with managerial talk. It does sound to my ears very subtly disingenuous. Now it’s my turn to be on the lookout for this.
Cheers
on the other hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM
One article on the subject: https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/the-real-purpose-of-uptalk-is...
What's uptalk?