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I could be wrong here, but it seems to me that a common aspect amongst all languages is the tendency to raise the pitch of your voice slightly when asking a question. Especially at the end of a question sentence.

If I'm wrong about this raised pitch being common amongst all languages, at the very least do all languages change their tone slightly to indicate that a question is being asked?

I guess there needs to be some way to indicate what is and isn't a question. Perhaps a higher pitched voice reflects uncertainty. Is this something deep rooted in humans, or just an arbitrary choice when language developed?

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[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Whatever that is, sounds like it might be toxic, typing it into my ancient-ass tablet broke everything and now the browser will only load the wiki page on neoliberalism

Edit finally it fucking worked and its just a nice lady with extreme vocal fry talking about puzzles, so wtf

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah she's great? but notice how her inflection consistently goes up? at the end of sentences? or clauses?

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Is that what you meant by valley girl?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes. That's a major component of the "valley girl" accent.

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Nah I lived with a woman in Burbank. Not my scene. Out of all the people in the LA suburbs I met whom I didn't like, that annoying valley girl accent never came up.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What about the ones you did like?

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

People are amazing at dinnertime.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

When you say you "had friends for dinner" ...

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

So that movie Coherence except your character got annoyed and left early so they had no clue of the shenanigans, and slept well.

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