This is a rant.
Have you noticed that younger people tend to go up at the end of sentences? This is certainly true in the UK. It is almost as if a question is being asked. This, along with the over-use of "like", is mainly a phenomenon of the under 25 year olds.
Listening to the radio, you can often tell the age of an interviewee by how a sentence ends. Personally, I find this intonation annoying. Then, I am a grumpy old man!
Us Grumpy Old Men must stick together! I think a lot of things about the younger generation(s) are mystifying to us, but then I try to imagine what it must have been like for our parents with us growing up in the sixties with long hair and rock and roll, etc.
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