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  • does anyone know of an online punctuation and correct English service?
    where you can write your post and it re-organises it for you?
    i'm obviously not getting the hang of this writtin stuff down as it is in my head
    and it really gets on peoples tits.

    Just PM your post to me first ;)

    it's known as the Australian Question Intonation or the High rising terminal :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal

    i've never heard a Canadian do it, at least not as much as aussies. mind you, americans etc do do it

    I have a psychosociolinguistic theory as to the origins of this phenomenon, but this really isn't the place for it...

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