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A significant portion of British youth started ending non-questions on a rising note, back when Neighbours was a thing here. The fact that this intensely irritated everybody over 18, particularly their teachers, was an incentive, of course.
itsbruce-
Yeah, people who talk like that sound like they're fucked in the head?
My theory is that it's a byproduct of a culture of anti-intellectualism, which fosters a sense that being informed and having strong opinions is just not cool, while implicitly seeking the approval of others with every utterance somehow is.
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It’s now accompanied by a shortened ‘the’ -heard as “thu” which sounds ridiculous and clumsy once you pick up on it. For example “it was thu end” not it was “thee end”.
Also included is adding a ‘pause then emphasise each syllable in the next word’ in every block of speech.
Kimmo
5hedfullash1t
I watched a bit of Eastenders for a while, maybe around 1990? Didn't seem too bad. Maybe a notch below what Shameless degraded to.
It was vastly superior to Neighbours, at least back then. Speaking of, the missus made me sit down in front of the Neighbours reunion special, and fuck was it awful. The writing, the acting, the whole production, just utter, utter shite. Mind-bogglingly bad.