What's with yuppies always saying "right" after every sentence?

[Anonymous]

I know, right?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know, right?!

No. It's a flat affect.

[Anonymous]

Why on earth does this bother you? Don't you have better things to do than criticize how other people choose to speak? I am sure you have annoying speech mannerisms, too! Who are you to judge others? Goodness! (Right?)

[Anonymous]

Its a sign of weakness in conviction and thought. Just like 'you know'


People who are confident don't need to soften their speech

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this - is it a speech technique instilled at college? Colleagues and NPR and cable news, it's everywhere. It's so annoying.

Yuppies? Are you living in the 90s? Rip van winkle effect? Did some hit you on the head 20 years ago and you're just coming out of your coma?

Seriously. I'm a millennial and my parents considered themselves yuppies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about that, but I hate when people start a sentence with "listen".

"Listen, we have to blah blah blah the blah blah blah."

Worse still is "look-it." Shudder.

look it is better than check-it

[Anonymous]

yuppies? you mean post hipsters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this - is it a speech technique instilled at college? Colleagues and NPR and cable news, it's everywhere. It's so annoying.

Yuppies? Are you living in the 90s? Rip van winkle effect? Did some hit you on the head 20 years ago and you're just coming out of your coma?

Seriously. I'm a millennial and my parents considered themselves yuppies.

And they (like many others) are not young anymore and have plateaued salary-wise.

[Anonymous]

My 4 year old does it ! I am
40 years older than him and just noticed how he ends every sentence with a right . So funny ! My 8 year old doesn't do it at all

[Anonymous]

I like "right" better than the "okay?" that follows most parental speak, whether or not they are asking their kids an actual question.

I'm not gonna lie, though. the absolute worst is "I'm not gonna lie." I had lunch with a millennial who preceded about sixty percent (not exaggerating) of her sentences with "I'm not gonna lie."

Where is that one from? Is she a former pathological liar trying to convince me that she's reformed? So distracting!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like "right" better than the "okay?" that follows most parental speak, whether or not they are asking their kids an actual question.

I'm not gonna lie, though. the absolute worst is "I'm not gonna lie." I had lunch with a millennial who preceded about sixty percent (not exaggerating) of her sentences with "I'm not gonna lie."

Where is that one from? Is she a former pathological liar trying to convince me that she's reformed? So distracting!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yuppies? you mean post hipsters?

the YUP in yuppy is for young urban professionals, who can be hipsters too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its a sign of weakness in conviction and thought. Just like 'you know'


People who are confident don't need to soften their speech

Elon musk and zuckerberg do it too. I don't think it's weakness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yuppies? you mean post hipsters?

the YUP in yuppy is for young urban professionals, who can be hipsters too.

Is this a square rhombus analogy. Not all yuppies are hipsters. Not all hipsters are young and many not upwardly mobile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yuppies? you mean post hipsters?

the YUP in yuppy is for young urban professionals, who can be hipsters too.

Is this a square rhombus analogy. Not all yuppies are hipsters. Not all hipsters are young and many not upwardly mobile.

Eh hipsters really have to be young.