DAE struggle with upspeak?
Up-speak is a linguistic and social phenomenon whereby a person raises their intonation toward the end of a sentence to signal a question-like response, even when stating a fact. I find that as a woman (22F), we tend to to be socialized to adopt this manner of speaking alongside other filler words, almost born of a fear to seem to “headstrong” or confident. Ironically, I feel my whole body cringe when I try to mimic it in others and I often don’t try but when I don’t, I feel like my speech is flat? Almost devoid of emotion? I get scared that I’m perceived as very serious and uncompromising…the RBF surely doesn’t help and when I’m anxious (almost always), I naturally frown a lot to help me focus. Rant aside, does anyone else experience this nuance?