It's like appending "Listen to me!" to every sentence.
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@paulg or a way to be less imposing, or to indicate a transition place for a turn at talk...few discursive practices have a 1:1 meaning
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took me a while to realise that this exact thing was why i had a lot of trouble getting along with someone at work once.
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How old were they? In my experience this habit gets knocked out of people by about age 25.
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considerably older than 25 (also older than me.)
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Might just have been a weird idiolect.
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yeah. i don't think it was insecurity (or the opposite), but it had the unnerving effect of making me think i was expected to add
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something. and it was not obvious to me what that should be.
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it was probably used as an opening for you to take a turn at talk, giving you the option. A different politeness norm.
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I'd say it's more of a WASPy upbringing indication
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Those two things are not exactly unrelated.
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"very accurate" as in you have data? Or anecdotal BS justifying bias against women, Australians, southerners? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal …
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@paulg ...Prechtel 2015; Levon 2016; Warren 2016...I think you get the point.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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the language will change, with or without you
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@paulg ...Fletcher et al 2002; Fletcher et al 2005; Fletcher & Loakes 2006; Ladd 2008; Schokeir 2008; Di Gioacchino & Crook Jessop 2011...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg I urge you read Ching 1982; Horvath 1985; Guy et al 1986; McLemore 1991; Britain 1992; Britain & Newman 1992; Warren & Daly 2000...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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in pop culture "uptalk" a female feature. You may consider walking back from this ledge real quick (?)
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