Speech patterns--which annoy you?

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After days at a conference full of annoying people I've been shocked by how many women, not sorority chicks but relatively older, succesful women, do that thing with their voice? you know, where every sentance is a question? and shows their complete lack of confidence in what they're saying? arrghh! I don't think I've ever heard a man speak this way and just want to force these women to listen to themselves on tape and see if they even know what's wrong.

tell me others do which make it impossible for you to focus on what they're saying.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

... I think you've pretty much covered the single most annoying one there

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

everyone in england talks this way yeah?

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I figured that ilxors probably talked like that? yknow?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

the cadence of BBC reporters drives me UP THE WALL. Every single sentence annunciated the same exact way, so irritating.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

i can't easily articulate it, but people who sort of do this 'friends'-type banter, only less good because not worked up by a twenty-strong writing team.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Two words: David.........

..........Caruso.

― peteR, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

everyone in england talks this way yeah?

You mean Australians, I think?

I understand new weather presenters are trained how to speak that weather way.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

another. ..awhile back we watched this documentary on the Houston rap scene. It featured a lot of old interviews with DJ Screw. Every other word was "knowwhatI'msayin?" It was awful! We started counting everytime he said it and the number literally went over 40 within one short segment.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

english people talk like australians, on the whole.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

sounds like you wanted to know what he was saying

― and what, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

everyone in england talks this way yeah?

... increasingly

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

He probably lacks confidence in his ability to express himself accurately.

― n/a, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

re: DJ Screw

― n/a, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

an executive from target is currently doing this. she makes me never want to shop at her store again.

I wonder if I ever do this? I'm one of those people who tends to mold their speech to match whoever they're speaking with. I know this might annoy others but I chalk it up to living in a bilingual household as a child. I should start taping myself so I can take a vow of silence if I ever catch myself doing the question/sentence thing.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I caught an interview with Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard last week: wall to wall "like, you know, like, erm, like, you know, erm, like..."

do not erm, you know, like!

― onimo, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Worst one at that is Gary Crowley.

"So, Paul, can you sort of like kind of like you know like like paint me a picture of like London in the you know sort of like mid '70s when like you know sort of kind of sort of like punk was happenin'?"

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

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