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by aupajo 4128 days ago
It's worth reading this piece for context. Reactions to uptalk can belie underlying prejudices. http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/12/16/uptalk_...
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I read it and got this far:

    > But even if women did uptalk more than men, we've all
    > heard enough uptalk to know that its rising intonation
    > doesn't indicate a question. No one's actually confused.
And as well-meaning as Marybeth Seitz-Brown might be, i do not appreciate the insinuation that i am lying when i, as a foreigner, state that i hate HRT* in men, women, americans, australians, anyone because it fucks with my parsing of spoken english, which is already one of hardest-to-parse languages on this planet.

Should i read further? Does she at any point acknowledge that i might be saying the truth?

* It's the only thing too, i don't mind excessive "like" usage, high-pitched voices, gravely voices, rednecks.