Wife's extreme uptalk and vocal fry

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[Post New]10/30/2016 08:39
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Anonymous
Just aks your wife to stop doing that.
[Post New]10/30/2016 23:21
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Anonymous
It could be unintentional. I work at a company with 90% Indians, and friends and family have pointed out I now do the head bobble. Not joking.
[Post New]10/31/2016 07:24
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Anonymous
OP here. Had a Halloween party and several of the young women from the office came. It was as if they were trying to compete to see who could do the most uptalk and most pronounced vocal fry. My wife was really getting in the action, trying to string words out for as long as possible so she could get that fry effect.
[Post New]12/18/2016 18:43
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Anonymous
OP are you in the DC area?
[Post New]12/19/2016 08:45
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singledadmclean
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Gay men do it too.
[Post New]12/19/2016 10:27
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I would happily listen to uptalk and vocal fry all day long if we could just like, do something about the habit lots of people (women in particular) have of like, inserting extraneous likes in their, like vocabulary. Soooo annoying.


You mean like the habit of lots of people have of starting every sentence with sooo?
[Post New]12/19/2016 16:41
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ZachF
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Monkey see monkey do. Monkey gets run over. So do you.

Another irritating thing, starting off saying so. EX. I saw you at the park. Where were you headed after ? So I was like going shopping. What did you buy ? So I bought a bag of rocks. Why did you buy a bag of rocks ? So like I could look smarter.

I hate followers. Don't be a follower.


What does this even mean?


It means they find it annoying when people start a sentence with so.

Person #1: Where did you go after work?
Person #2 : So I went to the store, and like bought a bag of rocks. So then I went to the bakery. So, what are you doing next?


That's not really it. Up talk is ending nearly every sentence with the same inflection as if it were a question, when it's not. If I said, "you know what I mean?" That would be appropriate to end with a bit of an up note, as it is a question. But really annoying people end any sentence, or all sentences with the same questioning inflection, when there is no question. It sounds like they are questioning themselves. Listen to Kato Kaelin, OJ Simpson's housemate talking. He can't talk at all without doing it and it makes him sound like such an idiot.

Vocal fry is totally different, but just as annoying. It's a kind of "frying," if you will, of usually the last word. But it could could be the first or any other word in a sentence. Like the boss in, Office Space." Yeahhhhhh, if you could just go ahead and come ...Sunday also, that would be Greaaaattt. Porn stars do it too because someone told them it's supposed to sound sexy. The lead girl character on "Mr. Robot" does it also. His sister, I forget the name.
[Post New]12/19/2016 19:48
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Had a Halloween party and several of the young women from the office came. It was as if they were trying to compete to see who could do the most uptalk and most pronounced vocal fry. My wife was really getting in the action, trying to string words out for as long as possible so she could get that fry effect.


Ugh. You must not have had sex that night. What a turn-off.

At least she hasn't started talking that way in bed. "Oh that feels so good??? Ohhhhhhhhh. Whhaaaaasssst? Take my braaaaaaassss off?"
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