Upspeak & Newspeak

What's with those people who end every statement as if it were a question?

It all started with our colonial cousins the Aussies, their soap operas and what have you.
First called AQI or Australian Questioning Intonation, used as a way of getting a response to a statement (as if it were a question).
We call it Upspeak or Raised Inflection.

It pisses me off when people talk to you and raise the tone of their voice at the end of whatever drivel they happen to want acknowledgement for.
Don't be weak, you don't need approval....just say it, stand by it or fuck off!

Don't get me started about the state of the English language either.....
Have you noticed how what we learned at school is no longer practiced?
If you've ever read Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell, as I did in English Literature, you'll see Orwell was right - if a little previous by 20 years or so.

Newspeak is here now!
The English language gets smaller every year.
The vowels are just the first to go and we abbreviate everything.
We have become a nation of illiterates.

tbh I blame the txt generation - lol (not)
Microsoft, they're as bad - there's no such thing as US English.

Reclaim the language before it's lost forever!