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Re:Uptalk is becoming more frequent among men by anateus on Friday May 02, 2014 @04:20PM (#7687891)
Every time I see language coverage from the BBC I break out in cold sweat. It's usually horrifyingly bad. This one wasn't terrible.

If you want some more background on uptalk and some of its spread from linguists:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=568

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=8879

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Re:Uptalk is becoming more frequent among men by barry-cotter on Friday May 02, 2014 @07:27PM (#7688764)
Every time I see TOPIC I am expert in coverage from journalists I break out in cold sweat. It's usually horrifyingly bad.

FTFY

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Re:Uptalk is becoming more frequent among men by jjh42 on Friday May 02, 2014 @09:34PM (#7689153)
I recently learned this has a name. The Gell-Mann effect.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-ge...

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Re:Uptalk is becoming more frequent among men by XaspR8d on Friday May 02, 2014 @05:52PM (#7688391)
Every time I see linguistics on HN, I break out in a sweat too. Thanks for jumping in quickly with some good sources!
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Re:Uptalk is becoming more frequent among men by woodson on Friday May 02, 2014 @08:41PM (#7689031)
but it's about language. we can all speak, so we're all experts, right? right?

I see this phenomenon a lot, also with topics like education.

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