"Otherwise we'll be a nation of only questions and no answers" this is hilarious

@lindahandley5267

11 ай бұрын

I think we're already there!

Connie Chung called it way ahead of time.

@classicrocklover5615

4 жыл бұрын

I loved Connie Chung, she was wonderful!

@ThaMobstarr

4 жыл бұрын

cruciferousvegetable Damn the way Connie does the upspeak is just fucking hilarious. xD

@kenleung2366

3 жыл бұрын

Classic rock Love

@bigchunguselementaryschool8312

3 жыл бұрын

Chungus.

@oomiesays

2 жыл бұрын

It was already going on. What do u mean ahead of time?

Up talk is now standard, along with vocal fry.

@anarcougly

9 ай бұрын

USA english is becoming un- understandable to me with these two awful ways of speaking 🤦🏻‍♀️

@plainseed

Ай бұрын

Lmao you are against women by saying that

@enbybeanie666

9 күн бұрын

​@@plainseedwhat? So all women are american now? Because this shit only exists in the US

Who’s here because of Joe Rogan

@jerryfusilli8152

4 жыл бұрын

Juan Hurtado got me !

@robertg1874

4 жыл бұрын

Here 🤚

@jesuschapo7002

4 жыл бұрын

Ha got'em!! 👍

@dragons10000

4 жыл бұрын

can i join the club as well

@darkl3gend659

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao love these kinds of comments xD

It is like conversing with someone in eternal doubt...

@anaklusmosgreek3198

4 жыл бұрын

Thank You.... I realize speech patterns effect behavior. it sounds like you want to engage with them or a need for converse....it has i think it makes conversing with someone more forceful of attention or drain someone to work intentionally for a conversation, rather nature flow of information, banter , interest, repertoire.

@lalaland2107

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@tomsmith6513

Жыл бұрын

@Madeline: you forgot the question mark at the end.

The Joe Rogan podcast brought me here.

@EddieBoes

4 жыл бұрын

Same here... never heard of it, till Rogan. Had to google.

@someguy0089

4 жыл бұрын

Nec Ro you do

@adambakkouch7316

4 жыл бұрын

Americans giving names to anything and everything

@kindbud

4 жыл бұрын

@@adambakkouch7316 ur obsessed with Americans like the rest of the world

@JoshPid

4 жыл бұрын

Haha joe brought me here too

The host is naturally sarcastic.

A society of questions and no answers!! This is too much! 😂

@stephentrueman4843

4 жыл бұрын

works on so many levels, had to pick myself up off the floor

@Aritul

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@corvus8638

3 жыл бұрын

I wish people still said things like this. Now it would be labeled offensive

@addielponce7533

3 жыл бұрын

Literally Spain

@appledoon8016

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

"This one time?... At bandcamp?..."

@umachan9286

7 жыл бұрын

I swear that is the only time that upspeaking is warranted when delivering that one line. Any other time and you're practically asking for a smack.

@paolapai

5 жыл бұрын

@Primordial Vengeance how is it awesome?

@qiugezhang6847

5 жыл бұрын

a good one!

@replicxnt

4 жыл бұрын

Very good 😂

@chrysologusdmello204

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha damn American Pie

This journalism had 10 times the professionalism and substance of today's "journalism".

@HAL-dm1eh

4 жыл бұрын

@Selim Sultan Akbar ??

@HAL-dm1eh

4 жыл бұрын

@Selim Sultan Akbar ?

@HAL-dm1eh

4 жыл бұрын

@Selim Sultan Akbar midget

@HAL-dm1eh

4 жыл бұрын

@Selim Sultan Akbar good for you

Lol, I love how the presenter suddenly started speaking with uptalk halfway through! 🤣

When Connie did that closing statement, it really magnified how ridiculous sounding uptalk is. "A nation of questions with no answers."

@SydMountaineer

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was great.

That ending was so savage

This is the best video I've come across demonstrating uptalk. I haven't heard one guru refer to "uptalk," then demonstrate it correctly. Connie Chung does it perfectly.

@MechaJutaro

9 жыл бұрын

Brainbuster I haven't heard one guru refer to "uptalk," then demonstrate it correctly. Connie Chung does it perfectly. Google Upspeak NPR. Susan Sankin in two different interviews gives stellar examples of both this and vocal fry

@Brainbuster

9 жыл бұрын

Baron Of Hair Thank you. Listening to it now. They sure are obsessed with criticism of "uptalk," being "sexist." They think it's sexist to criticize uptalk because women more often speak that way. But the reason people criticize uptalk is because statements sound like questions. Or tentative statements. Or approval-seeking.

@MechaJutaro

9 жыл бұрын

Brainbuster Anytime, Buster; both interviews(the other being for a documentary, Do I sound Gay?)are thoroughly illuminating enough that I've been recommending them quite frequently of late. They think it's sexist to criticize uptalk because women more often speak that way. On that note, one can only imagine this same chain of logic being applied to gossip/cattiness and hypercriticalness: These are traits typically associated with women, and women have often been mistreated and disenfranchised throughout history, therefore let's give carte blanche to these traits, sans examination of their dynamics and effects on both the individual and culture, regardless of who's perpetrating them. Hell, let's start taking murder lightly as well; that's something pop culture associates with non whites in America, who've also suffered injustices, therefore racism is cured by not holding those who rob others of their lives accountable But the reason people criticize uptalk is because statements sound like a question. Or a tentative statement. Or approval-seeking. Amen; those last two conundrums have provided particular impetus in my directing them towards fellow males; few "qualities" diminish a fellow's status, among both the ladies and other males, more swiftly than these two. As a dude's who's been unconsciously perpetuating the epidemic in question, eliminating the pattern has become foremost among my goals of late

@Brainbuster

9 жыл бұрын

Baron Of Hair Very good points.

@MechaJutaro

8 жыл бұрын

+Brainbuster Very good points. Much obliged; don't hesitate to spread the word to our brothers in arms whenever you find them perpetrating this undeniably epidemic transgression. Has to rank among the most insidious threats to the redefinition and evolution of modern masculinity.

Some of the uptalk in this video is mild, especially compared to what I hear now (2015). When you mix it with the valley girl accent and some vocal fry it's almost unbearable.

@MechaJutaro

9 жыл бұрын

echt114 Some of the uptalk in this video is mild, especially compared to what I hear now (2015 Dunno that any accurate means of measuring the frequency of such an occurrence exists, nonetheless I concur that the trend is still rampant. Coulda used this particular wake up call back in '94 myself.

@aaaab384

6 жыл бұрын

Notice how they never said "like", back then. Now it's in every sentence.

@firecloud77

6 жыл бұрын

echt144, You're so right, and that was just 2 years ago. I swear it's grown exponentially since then.

@MitchellWiggs

6 жыл бұрын

It's like the ultimate Kardashian language

@MixedWhisper1977

6 жыл бұрын

I wanna hear that in action , valley girl mixed with up talking

I upliked this video. Thanks so much for upload.

@PhilShary

4 жыл бұрын

Upthanks

@raquelberger7909

3 жыл бұрын

You are upwelcomed

First time in my life I agreed with connie Chung

Connie Chung is apparently the best :D

I miss Connie Chung!

Dang people look so different such different style in just 20 years

@computerhoofd

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, fashion and trends actually changes roughly after every 2 to 4 months. Rapidly.

@fernandotills

4 жыл бұрын

Idk bout y’all but I fuckin dig it

@badgerlife9541

3 жыл бұрын

Almost 30 years ago now..

@JB_inks

2 жыл бұрын

Her outfit is beautiful

a nation of questions and no answers.....brilliant

I didn't know back in 94 that this shit would grate my ears in 2019.

This is so mild compared to today.

@rtp5768

2 ай бұрын

t was little milder in this video because this was right when grunge had done it's thing (grunge was very opposite of the 80s vibe/style and certainly Valley Girls). It heavier before and after.

Love this host

@michaelpatten1286

4 жыл бұрын

Connie Chung was alsome!

@spewgilist

2 жыл бұрын

Cute, smart, sarcastic

Wow they even noticed it back then too.

Connie Chung is hilarious. In 1994 it was subtle and still annoying. Now I just want people to stop talking. Just keep texting

@teelowteelow356

Жыл бұрын

4 years later and it’s worse than ever

@WotchTheWerldBern

6 ай бұрын

@@teelowteelow356 it's part of the takeover through cultural conditioning. Upspeak is inherently childlike (lots of questions) and when adults use this inflection in everyday conversation, it simulates infantilism / coyness and serves to promote victim-hood mentality.

Connie Chung is/was a great reporter. I want more!

Connie killed it

This was probably when uptalk was in its infancy. It does seem mild compared to what I'm hearing nowadays...it has definitely gotten worse.

@tiberiu_nicolae

4 жыл бұрын

And yet I despise vocal fry so much more

@lalaland2107

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Lmao

@rtp5768

2 ай бұрын

Nah, not at all. Uptalk was already in some parts of SoCal in the late 70s. The Valley Girls of the earliest 80s were major uptalkers and from them it spread like crazy to the rest of the nation '82-'83. Practically everyone in middle school through college in the 80s picked it up big time (without even realizing we had). It was everywhere by '83. Along with like, totally, literally for emphasis, soooo, wicked, awesome, oh my god, you know, gnarly and others that have faded out a lot like rad and bitchin' and some that never spread quite as strongly outside of SoCal like grody, tubular and stuff like "ewww so gross like gag meee" and are long faded out. Extreme fry is more recent though, maybe around 00s started getting thicker, sleepier, more extensive, deeper.

@rtp5768

2 ай бұрын

It was little milder in this video because this was right when grunge had done it's thing (grunge was very opposite of the 80s vibe/style and certainly Valley Girls). It heavier before and after.

I did not know this had been going on so long. I now hear both Men and Women doing it in corporate meetings. It is EXTREMELY ANNOYING.

@BozonWoz

6 жыл бұрын

It's funny the linguist in this segment, Dr Cynthia McLemore was a legit social scientist! I mean she was way ahead of the curve here. She saw the future! It would be funny to hear what she has to say today.

@NR-gp2il

4 жыл бұрын

Kevin Noonan crazy how smart she was this almost 30 years ago

@rtp5768

2 ай бұрын

Oh like totally way longer than this. In 1994 it was already and old phenom. It had already been going on nationwide since like '83 at least. You can even find an earlier CBS Evening News report from 1982 talking about val speak (they focused more on the slang than the uptalk, but the uptalk was all there). They did another report in 1986. In 1994 it was probably a bit weaker than before and after since grunge tamped down on all things 80s for a while. Uptalk was actually already going on in some parts of SoCal in the late 70s (and apparently in parts of Australia in the 1950s). The Valley Girls of the earliest 80s were major uptalkers and from them it spread like crazy to the rest of the nation '82-'83. Practically everyone in middle school through college in the 80s picked it up big time (without even realizing we had). It was everywhere by '83. Along with like, totally, literally for emphasis, soooo, wicked, awesome, oh my god, you know, gnarly and others that have faded out a lot like rad and bitchin' and some that never spread quite as strongly outside of SoCal like grody, tubular and stuff like "ewww so gross like gag meee" and are long faded out. That said, at first it spread only among middle school through college age or so, so hearing in corporate meetings probably wouldn't have happened until the 90s and among many in such a situation until more recently.

2:58 "Otherwise we'll be a Nation of only questions, and no answers" Good call

Joe brought me here

I love how the narrator started using when asking how fast it would spread?

@rtp5768

2 ай бұрын

ironically it had already spread over a decade earlier, CBS Evening news even reported on val speak in 1982 already and how it was starting to sweep the nation

Connie Chung cracks me up in this!!!

Uptalk, a subset of valspeak, is the habit of producing a rising inflection as if you’re asking a question - even when you’re not

Almost every young American talks like this today. 😂

@jpr3665

4 жыл бұрын

Sammy Varté they sound like idiots

@travian821

4 жыл бұрын

america fell for a shitty way of talking hahaha

@JK.308

4 жыл бұрын

Born in 1999, I didn't know it existed until today. I know many people that talk like that and it always made me feel uncertain about them but I usually dismissed that feeling. I also have a group of friends that talk in a way that could only be called "downtalk." It's nearly identical to the way they go down with their sentences in the United Kingdom, but in an American accent. I think it might be attributed to the ridiculous amount of time gaming and watching British KZreadrs and livestreamers

@levarmitchell3962

3 жыл бұрын

Every young American? You idiot not all young Americans talk like that. If you really knew anything about the country you wouldn't say that.

@levarmitchell3962

3 жыл бұрын

@@jpr3665 You are an idiot

1:54, I like how Connie starts using the up talk there, lol. I'm almost 39 and after having a bit of trouble with my landlord I ended up calling his boss and caught myself using up talk. Almost broke out laughing when I realized it.

This aged very well.

"What a horrible thouGHT? We'll be right BaCK?"

Pretty good use of sarcasm.

Uptalk is literally normal talk now.

@dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621

4 ай бұрын

It’s not even that annoying. Vocal fry on the other hand.

Excellent source for fashion research, thanks!

all i can say is... Cindy Crawford's hair is gorgeous

"I notice people from Delaware." Lolol she trolling while it's still in beta well played. 2:49

Good job Connie!! Up Speak infuriates me! “Last summer at band camp”--American Pie movie

This video is thirty years old…. Crazy

Haha,CONNIE CHUNG is a legend! I wish she was on British TV!

Her closing line -- "We'll be right back⬆️" was hilarious.

@Peter_Channel

7 ай бұрын

I laughed when she did her closing⬆️ 😂

Connie Chung was fine..

26 years later and no one listened.

@rtp5768

2 ай бұрын

@Strwbryy111 we already were a nation of uptalkers at the youth level since 1983, but yeah now as GenX and it has had more time to seep across, the entire nation up to maybe age 60 or so does it a lot

The anchor's predictions came true.

Lol, the Australians literally made this their accent 🤣

As if that wasn't bad enough, now vocal fry is everywhere. The problem with language is that it's fluid and contagious, whether it be right or wrong. I hear it all the time. As soon as a trend appears and persists for a while, many people pick it up. It could be not knowing when to use I or me in a sentence (and picking the wrong one because everyone else does - me usually misses out), overusing actually, literally, like, etc., or changes to the way they speak. People do these things and they don't even know they're doing it.

Internet Comment Etiquette boys!

Damn. JRE brought me here

The opening is hilarious. The way her eyes change for each sentence.

omg. it's sooooo much worse now and annoying AF!!!!

It's worse when people type it out. I work in customer service, and it's so annoying getting an email with a customer inquiring about an order. "The tracking says my order was delivered, but I didn't get it???" That's not a fucking question. Stop using question marks when you're not asking a question! Also, please stop using multiple question marks. It's unnecessary.

I actually don't mind the so-called upspeak in most of those examples? because they didn't sound like they were asking a question? or begging for validation? It's only when it creates dissonance? in how to interpret the sentence? that I find it distracting?

30 years later I find Up talk + Vocal fry every where

We have had this kind of speech pattern in Australia for a while now. I think it has just become the Aussie way. It is extremely annoying when you become aware of it, and hear people doing it all the time...

@mysticsoul7284

4 жыл бұрын

It just makes you that much more aware of how you speak too. I avoid uptalking as much as possible, so damn annoying.

@SydMountaineer

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I read about that somewhere a while back, the article said it's a big thing in Australia.

@tomsmith6513

Жыл бұрын

@@mysticsoul7284 What if everyone does it? Would it not be like smelling onion breath?

@tomsmith6513

Жыл бұрын

@@SydMountaineer Adam Hills made a joke about it once. kzread.info/dash/bejne/faR2u9CFZcmniKg.html

@johnq.random1496

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, it started in the USA and it spread to your country. Yes, Aussies always speak with uptalk, it ruins your charming accent. Stop it!!

Everyone uptalks nowadays

@violetcolby4225

2 жыл бұрын

I don't and I'd say that most people don't.

@elainebenez1069

2 жыл бұрын

@@violetcolby4225 most people in California do. Including me.

I was 15 in 1994 and I remember this stuff.

@smff8846

6 жыл бұрын

That means you're at least 36 now.

As echt114 said: it's fairly mild compared to today (2018). Combined with "vocal fry" which makes people sound like crows with laryngitis, and starting each sentence with "So", it drives me nuts!

Add in the over use and improper use of the word "literally" and it confirms our descent into societal hell.

@pexxxii839

4 жыл бұрын

psuro literally

@0patience4flz

4 жыл бұрын

ACTUALLY....

@TonyMishima92

4 жыл бұрын

@Raymond Le It's really not that big of a deal. Meanings of words have changed throughout history. Plus, a lot of people just use it differently as a form of slang.

@0patience4flz

4 жыл бұрын

@Raymond Le EVERYONE LOVES THEIR MOTHER...YOUR MOTHER IS THE BIGGEST DEAL...I PROMISE U....go hug your mother...

@lalaland2107

3 жыл бұрын

@@TonyMishima92 people probably started off thinking they were using right, too 😂

First time hearing this term. And now I'll pick up on it a lot more.😂

When I was in the Army I used to make my solders do many pushups whenever they talked this way?

That journalist is a savage! hahahaha

There is another thing called “ vocal fry”. So a combination of up talk and vocal fry is a destruction combo to society 😂😂

@PhilTravisano

9 ай бұрын

Listen to the last words of the last young lady. Vocal fry!!!

@microbios8586

6 ай бұрын

Basically how the Kardashians speak

@rtp5768

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, uptalk is old, started in parts of CA in the late 70s and became majorly big in the Valley (of Valley Girls fame) where it then spread like made across the U.S. '82-'83. CBS Evening News even did a report on it back in 1982 and naother in 1986. Vocal fry though it way newer. Valley Girls didn't do it much and certainly not like the Kardashians/Hilton or what you hear today. That started getting going in the mid-90s and became more widespread sometime in the 00s. uptalk was popularized by GenX'ers vocal fry was popularized by Millennials two decades after val speak (think like, sooo totally, awesome, bitchin', rad, literally as an emphasis and uptalk, plus back in the day in some areas a certain accent on top of all of that) got going nationwide although you see lots of incorrect videos and tik-toks incorrectly claiming that the tons of deep extended vocal is val speak

The host got me 😂😂😂

this ankerwoman is fantastic. super funny. and from 1994 haha xD

I thought I was the only one who noticed this actually.

Connie Chung is a good reporter.

Hilarious ending

@greg_1492

3 жыл бұрын

yeah it was, I was literally LMAO

Thank God! I thought it was all Americans. So it annoys them too. I'm Australian & hate it!

The commentator killed it in the end :DD

I’ve avoided these colloquial idiosyncrasies over the years when I became sensitive to it back in the eighties with Valley speak and that hilariously satirical song, Valley Girl. I’ve since been especially sensitive to such trends. The current trend (along with vocal fry) is the use of the phrase, “I feel like...” as in, “I feel like this is an awful use of a phrase in such a passive aggressive way.”

@MikinessAnalog

4 жыл бұрын

Too many these days allow themselves to be ruled more by emotion rather than logic. It's very disconcerting.

@dariusus9870

Жыл бұрын

@@MikinessAnalog if only that were the case. That would actually be authentic and "diverse". But emotion has nothing to do with fashion or brainwashing.

@PhilTravisano

9 ай бұрын

Interestingly, the last young lady ends her statement with vocal fry. But I don't think it had been discovered or named yet.

The up talk in this video sounds so nostalgic - it doesn't bother me

"We'll be right back?" 🔥

@lordnelsonmc.billionberg9166

3 жыл бұрын

Its Just hot

this one time, at band camp.. I first became aware of this manner of speaking from watching American Pie

This is how people talk ALL the time now, and it's sadly, here to stay.

When people uptalk they are basically asking you if you understand, very frequently. Its like a thing that puts you on their "level". Had a lot of friends who talked like this, and sometimes I would do it too.

Hahhahahahaaa! My advise see old movies again, where women still had a sense of poise and sophistication in their manners and speech.

@rtp5768

2 ай бұрын

I took your advice and watched this movie from 1983: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p5x8m8eweajInrg.htmlsi=FVL7oyu3xpZvW_JE

0:11 If this part was aired today, she would be fired for bullying, and offending those who talk that way.

@r.i.petika829

4 жыл бұрын

Naw, I don’t think that’d happen. You’re over estimating the habit of people becoming offended by things.

@Aaron-fb6mb

4 жыл бұрын

@@r.i.petika829 people like to be dramatic lol

@SydMountaineer

3 жыл бұрын

I agree! The network would not allow a reporter to say that today, in our litigious society.

I'm Ron Burgundy?

excellent point

This voice is everywhere now

@joshbaker2157

6 жыл бұрын

FFS!!!! And has almost morphed into a high pitched shrill that only dogs can hear but still pierces holes in the human eardrum.

It's the tail end of 2023 and upspeaking is how everyone speaks now.

Almost 30 years later I noticed my son talks like this.

Even reporters on NPR and otherwise highly-educated people are doing it now. Aarrgh!

every time someone upspeaks, i imagine super mario jumping. it’s hard to keep listening to them, lol

here after joe rogan

Hahaha the last one was awesome 👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰🤣🤣🤣

The poor guys in the 1994 did not know that the unstoppable march of uptalking by the 2020. Even in British English!!

Silence is golden

Oh my god, I do it all the time without realizing

Why would people adopt a intonation pattern that obviously makes them sound more stupid??

@BozonWoz

7 жыл бұрын

The professor in this clip seems to have a few ideas but honestly the world may never know. It's really annoying!

@Fhshaoaksbd

4 жыл бұрын

It’s purely subjective. There’s nothing inherently stupid or stupid sounding about it... Although I’m sure this is a problem you’re familiar with

@0patience4flz

4 жыл бұрын

@@Fhshaoaksbd ...ur 12 yrs old now right?

@lalaland2107

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fhshaoaksbd I find it makes people sound unsure. I have heard students give responses in uptalk to teachers-in one word answers or full sentences-it was all in uptalk. I was one of the handful who didn't speak like this.

@jalapenopizza9505

3 жыл бұрын

It's mostly unconscious

We are already a nation of questions with no answers

Fast forward almost 30 years, and this problem has only gotten worse.

Hahahaha when the presenter is doing that, it is so funny