How Shall We Tackle This Menace?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28708526
I must confess to fighing the urge for violence when I hear this!

[boxtops]

I thought it came from Neighbours...... it drives me potty.

[jomifl]

How is it written without being a question. Perhaps 'Hi my name is Mylene^' or similar.

[Graham-W]

me?
You're asking

pasion!
I hate it with a

properly.
They should learn to speak English

[Graham-W]

Hmm. Spacing doesn't work as intended.

[agchristie]

Yes,very irritating.Makes me crINGE!

[Gromit]

I subscribe to the Aussie soaps theory of where this came from. I had never heard it until the 1980s when I began to hear younger people talking oddly. I have never detected Scots or Irish doing it, but that may be where the Aussies got it.

I'm not sure there is anything we can do.

[2sp_]

I know a woman in her 50s that does this. Drives me nuts.

Typically Highlanders don't even use an upward inflection even when asking an actual question...

[Sqad]

Mainly affects young teenagers and young mothers although males are affected.

Any clues there?

[ludwig]

This menace is old hat now. I actually think it's died off to some extent.
There's a new one, which is people beginning sentences with the word 'so'.

[jomifl]

and 'like'

[Old_Geezer]

I don't ^know ?
Do you have an ^answer ?
Maybe there ^isn't one ?

[237SJ]

I`ve got a friend who`s in his 50`s and has spoken like that for years. He leaves "upspeak" messages on my answerphone. He got the habit from his friend - it`s very contageous. It sounds alright on Australians but irritating and a bit silly on Brits - a bit like suddenly adopting an American accent.

[Sqad]

237SJ...LOL

[Retrochic]

Language and pronunciation evolve, its natural but now accelerated in the world we live in. Listening to people talking 60 years ago , they sound very different from today and however much we complain we have no control over what the younger generations say and how they say it. Its damned annoying though!

[Svejk]

or 'look' like chukka amunah.

[jackthehat]

JtH jnr developed this way of speaking......briefly.

He stopped it when I answered everything he said as if it was a question. :o)

[Retrochic]

I agree with Ludwig, the upspeak is dying out among the teens. My young teenager, when he condescends to communicate, begins every sentence with 'So'.
'So' whens dinner?
'So' will you pick me up from......?
'So' have you washed my PE kit?