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my name is nikki guideX
i'm from austriliA
i ride mountainbikeS
i do that annoying thing when my voice goes up at the end of sentanceSIt's called AQI - Stephen Fry brought it up on Room 101 few years back
It means Australian Questionable(I think?) InferiorityBasically means when people talk like a twat by raising the tone of the last word of a sentence - almost like a question. It's 'sitting on the fence' as they talk neither positively or negatively, tends to happen a lot with posh teenage girls and American birds too
REALLY, REALLY annoying!
A kind of modern accent that has just come from nowhere -
I stand corrected:
Don't AQI with me!
AQI is a rising inflection at the end of a question - or a statement! I quote from a sociolinguistic survey from 1989:
[INDENT]Australian Questioning IntonationAQI is used more by working class than middle class, teenagers than adults, people under 20 (6 times more) than people over 20 and females than males
AQI may denote uncertainty and deference but has other functions as well, e.g. in narratives and among peers
The primary function of AQI is to seek verification of the listener's comprehension.
[/INDENT]Other sources suggest that approval, rather than verification, is sought.AQI and my reaction to it is mirrored here by Gina Snowdoll; briefly the AQI (also known as HRT: High Rise Terminal) which was quite mild and almost charming -- especially in the New Zealand accent -- has now been strengthened in its spread around the youth of Europe and probably everywhere else. I still can't decide whether its use in London means that people are unsure of every statement they make or perhaps they are not certain that they will be comprehended: a passive-aggressive insult to the listener. Uncertainty is also manifested in the USA by inserting "sort of", "like" and "kinda" in every statement and this habit has spread here too. The effect is that one is unsure what kind of response is being sought: agreement, information, approval? Who can say. They undermine everything they say. It's frustrating. It blocks communication.
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It's called AQI - Stephen Fry brought it up on Room 101 few years back
It means Australian Questionable(I think?) InferiorityBasically means when people talk like a twat by raising the tone of the last word of a sentence - almost like a question. It's 'sitting on the fence' as they talk neither positively or negatively, tends to happen a lot with posh teenage girls and American birds too
REALLY, REALLY annoying!
A kind of modern accent that has just come from nowhereI think I prefer this definition to the real one :)
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oh my God, she is fit
How can you know this? There are no HR/VO2 max/LT graphs or stats in the picture.
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It's called uptalking, you buncha knobs...
So... Tell us about your new lady, Dale... ;DFor the ultimate in you-are-annoying-and-I-want-to-kill-you affectations, try interacting with an uptalking close-talker...
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It's called uptalking, you buncha knobs...
So... Tell us about your new lady, Dale... ;DIt's OFFICIALLY AQI!
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It's officially HRT :p
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Mans'ead Andy, sorry
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Stephen Fry's always right. AQI:
8mins in...
YouTube - Stephen Fry on Room 101 - 2/3 -
Allison Stokke
repo....ah fuck it
There goes this afternoons workload.........
sigh -
Alzheimers...
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you have a pole? do you keep him for cheap labour and handy jobs around the house?
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