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masonma71 | 23:00 Fri 19th Nov 2010 | Society & Culture
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Is it just me, or does anyone else find it incredibly irritating that half the country seems to have adopted this "raised intonation" accent, like every time they speak they put a question mark on the end of each sentence
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Yes - I wouldn't say half the country, but it's always annoyed me, it's not new.
No, it's not just you. The AQI is annoying but it has always been a part of some UK dialects.

Unfortunately, it is now commonly used as an - 'I'm talking sh1t but need it to sound interesting, and need to know you're actually listening to my drivel' - tool.
You mean when someone says something similar to... "So are we going to the club like?"

If so it has become molded into our daily verbal fabric I'm afraid.
no, it's on things that aren't questions... So I went to the club?

It's said to derive from Australian intonation, as picked up from too much watching Neighbours. Doesn't bother me.
I think it was Stephen Fry who called it Inflection Infection. I think it's too many people growing up watching Aussie soaps
White kids speaking like black gangsters are the most annoying
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You hit the nail on the head there Naz but what do the initials AQI stand for?
Acquired QI (from watching too much Stephen Fry)? -->>?
ELVIS68 a new language has emerged which is a mixture of Jamaican patois, East end cockney and American hip hop, just an urban mix which all the youths regardless of colour, religion and class use now.
Australian Question Intonation ... another submission from the amazing Mr. Fry.
you can't watch too much Fry - if I didn't follow his every word I would never have known that women don't like sex.
... and Mockney ... WHY?
LOL jno....
Mockney is more Jamie Oliver and Dick Van Dyke naz.
I know, but still ... WHY? lol
Watch this, funny if you're a Danny Dyer fan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeH4TRI3kd0
Johnny Vaughan is the biggest fraudster when comes down to false accents
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Elvis, yes have noticed that accent too, especially in kids/teenagers. Just very very annoying
Very annoying. My ear drums twitches everytime I hear the raised of intonation in every given answer, making me want to strangle them. I find young girls do it more making them sound more fashionable with imported TV programes.
Actually Elvis, Mark Lamarr is a bigger accent fraud - he sounds like a Cockerney, he was born in Swindon!

The speech pattern to which you refer masonma71 is wonderfully referred to by Rory McGrath as the 'mornic interogative' - and yes, it is irritating, but t'was ever thus.

Speech patterns evolve over time, and always annoy someone somewhere - we just have to let them flow over us.

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