{"id":9901,"date":"2012-02-29T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/29\/uptalk-or-high-rising-terminal\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:36:28","slug":"uptalk-or-high-rising-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/29\/uptalk-or-high-rising-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptalk or &#8216;High Rising Terminal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So<span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/28\/science\/young-women-often-trendsetters-in-vocal-patterns.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_self\">that&#39;s<\/a> what that annoying girl-talk mannerism is called:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">But the idea that vocal fads initiated by young women eventually make their way into the general vernacular is well established. Witness, for example, the spread of uptalk, or \u201chigh-rising terminal.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Starting in America with the Valley Girls of the 1980s (after immigrating from Australia, evidently), uptalk became common among young women across the country by the 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Talk like that, and you are, like, a bonehead?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#39;s what that annoying girl-talk mannerism is called: But the idea that vocal fads initiated by young women eventually make their way into the general vernacular is well established. Witness, for example, the spread of uptalk, or \u201chigh-rising terminal.\u201d Starting in America with the Valley Girls of the 1980s (after immigrating from Australia, evidently), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/29\/uptalk-or-high-rising-terminal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uptalk or &#8216;High Rising Terminal&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}