| Like, oh my god? vocal fry: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3626 (2011) including samples from the 1980s of speakers born in the 1950s uptalk: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=568 (2008) has samples of US Presidential uptalk, references to 1975 monographs, and: > Let's note in passing that 9th-century Viking warriors were not stereotypically insecure or in need of approval or affirmation from their interlocutors. Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM (when I discovered they were also wearing leotards and leg warmers on the other side of the Iron Curtain during that era, I was like freaking out? eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlrRKindB-U&t=120s but I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised: the 80s were the 80s, everywhere: eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h-5G58Jask&t=80s ) |