Using interrogative intonation for declarative sentences is a very accurate predictor of entitlement.
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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actually appears to be a change in process, not getting "knocked out". ask a linguist about these issues before tweeting as authority
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I think they watched cartoons a lot during childhood. Might be because of that. Same problem in other languages.
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