On May 6, 2011, at 11:10 AM, William Robb 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.
Looks like I got here late. Yes it's very common in NZ and it drives me insane for that exact reason. Cheers, Dave -- 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.
