Uptalk? Who? Not These Students?

Now, in September 2021, I see that Uptalk has become endemic in Canada. Listen to 9-year-old kids talking to adults and every sentence ends like this? It's worse than endemic?
Soon ALL Canadians will be speaking Uptalk.
CRUSH Uptalk wherever you see it? CORRECT IT every time you hear it? MOCK all speakers of Uptalk by saying "Oh, you're speaking Australian again?"?
IT'S TIME WE STOPPED THE FUCKING DISEASE OF UPTALK.
PERIOD.

[@microbios8586]

This speech habit is common among well educated young people. I hear it all the time on NPR, both from interviewees and the hosts themselves. It's absolutely irritating, especially when men do it.

[@kamakirinoko]

Oooooooooohhhh it's almost as annoying as when these medical talking heads start EVERY answer, no matter what, with "So . . ."

[@GreenIllness]

Interesting to see how language (and the associated mindset generally following this upspeak) can change so distinctly over just a few years.

[@NatePerdomo]

horrific god help us all

[@casparuskruger4807]

And now there is a set of some other especially annoying speech patterns that I hear ALL the time ( due to a sales manager I had calling out a few reps for CONSTANTLY using them ) "A bit of a" "kind of a" "sort of a" --ALL said, when "IS A" can be used instead, 99% of the time. It sounds like attempts to be deliberately vague and being non-committal and unsure. I'm hearing this more and more from sports play-by-play announcers and their colour men.

[@lisasdfwhightechworld9946]

I want to ask speakers if they are describing an incomplete act or process and what it will take to finish it. Is someone else coming to finish the task that is "sort of" done?

[@dominator9059]

This should be the #1 result for people wanting to hear uptalk examples. Also, searched for "uptalking" because I was talking to a Canadian who was uptalking really badly, so I think you're onto something.

[@kamakirinoko]

It's just sickening. And it's now *EVERYWHERE*. My brother and sister are in their 60s and live in San Diego nd Oakland, CA, and they have started uptalking as well . . . it's their kids that infect them. We'll know we're in trouble when our politicians start speaking in Uptalk. But you know who are the ABSOLUTE WORST? The Australians and New Zealanders. I think they invented it.

[@casparuskruger4807]

Uptalking is especially heard most often when people are being interviewed. If you listen to people being interviewed the radio, it's pretty well constant --just like the students being interviewed here.

[@kamakirinoko]

Nah, you haven't heard these people away from microphones-trust me, they talk like that ALL THE TIME. It's a fucking disease . . . I've seen my own brother and sister, who live in California and are around my brother's kids all the time-kids who uptalk LIKE FUCK-and they've definitely caught it. It's like a new dialect of English, created by the 21st century, and although I'm not an expert, I'll wager that the roots of the contagion come from New Zaaland, primarily, then Australia. It could be from some Maori language custom or something . . . kind of like Indians who wobble their heads when they speak, and Japanese who are continually nodding up and down-a speech pathology.

[@benadrylcumberbun]

You're a crazy person ​@@kamakirinoko

[@kamakirinoko]

@@benadrylcumberbun Speak for yourself.

[@camokazi1313]

What's it called when the rise in tone is at the beginning of the sentence? That's the one I can't stand.

[@kamakirinoko]

I need to hear that one.

[@camokazi1313]

@kamakirinoko I found it. It's valley speak. i'm pretTY SURE you've heard it. It's SO FUCKing annoying. you CAN IDENtify it right away.

[@kamakirinoko]

@@camokazi1313 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That's SOOO FUNNY. I used to live in Northern California, and that came out of Los Angeles-where else? Sometime in the 80s. For a while it seemed to be everywhere-I agree that it's INCREDIBLY FUCKING annoying, but I thought it faded out long ago. I'm now in Montreal (where this video was snatched off the news) but I have lots of contact with California. Hey! Look on the bright side! At least Valleyspeak didn't take over the fucking world like this verbal disease! Why do I remember a song called "Valleygirl" by the daughter of Frank Zappa? You might look into it.

[@KonradHjalmar]

infuriating

[@Victoriacameby]

a step is a step?

[@kamakirinoko]

I'm sorry, YT is not showing the video this is a comment for. Did I say that? Well, Victoria, if I said it, it must be so. Unless I was being sarcastic, which is a highly likely scenario.

[@belensueldo3350]

What is this video about?

[@kamakirinoko]

This is a "screenshot" of a news program in which the speakers are speaking a form of speech which is called "uptalk." Google it. It's basically the idiotic way of talking in which every sentence ends with a question, even when it is not a question. Try it? Say everything as if it's a question? You'll understand very quickly? The Australians seem to have pioneered it? But now everyone does it? Following me now?

[@lepauvrehomme]

Is it obvious? The guy for Christ’s sake!!!!

[@alex-my8hp]

@@kamakirinoko A lot of Irish accents as well.

[@Filos_al-Hafamani]

It's so annoying. And the first one does vocal fry AND uptalk

[@kamakirinoko]

Vocal fry???

[@kamakirinoko]

Ohhhhh, okay, (I just saw it demonstrated). So THAT's what it is! I've heard so many women (it's always young women) doing that and I never actually noticed that it was an artificial speech pattern . . . but I had never heard the term. Note the last female speaker here doesn't say a single thing withOUT uptalk. But dude, just wait till you hear the Australians . . . THAT's where it came from (either them or New Zealanders). Althigh with thim ut just sounds loik paht've they accent?

[@rationalwatcher7739]

God God. Textbook examples.

[@sammy9744]

Omg

[@nickchorizo]

Thanks Joe Rogan. Now I can never un-hear this.