On Thu, 05 May 2011 17:10 -0600, "William Robb" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/05/2011 12:28 PM, Bob W wrote: > >> > > > Send a Youtube link if you can find one. It'd be interesting to hear. The > > rising intonation is a new thing to British English, having come here from > > New Zealand within the last 20 or so years, and is generally restricted to > > young women. Maybe your presenter is not British. > > That seems to be happening here, with statements meant to be of fact > issued like as if they are questions. > My tendency when I run into this is to disagree on general principals. > It drives them batty. >
I thought this originated in Oz, but I'm more than happy to lay the blame on on the Kiwis. It's certainly been prevalent here for 20 years or more. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
