Affliction affecting my in today's society not just teenagers where a person makes a question out of a sentence that isn't a question (or more simply speaks "up" at the end of a sentence). Huge part of most American and European accents. In some languages such as French or Spainish it is actually required as part of the accent but has seeped into the English language perverting the grammar of sentences, annoying the hell out of some and showing the widespread influence of US TV like Friends and Sex and the City on accents (particularly in the UK and Ireland)
> Example 1: "Well our windfall would probably be 4000? By this time next year?"
> Example 2: "Mom no way can I go out like that. I'd look, like, so..stupid?"
> Example 3 "I'm Irish but because of Friends? And Sex and the City? I talk like I'm some kind of Valley Girl because of upspeak?"

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By George Dwyer Washington, DC 01 May 2006 watch World Oil Peak report Rising oil prices have many consumers and business people wondering how long it will be before the price of a barrel of oil or a

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Tom: We're both English teachers. Is there anything you hate about teaching English? Jess: There's actually not much that I hate about teaching English but there is one thing which drives me balmy, annoys me more than anything else and that's correct

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Every mountain has a peak What is the secret ingredient of tough people that enables them to succeed? Why do they survive the tough times when others are overcome by them? Why do they win when others lose? Why do they soar when others sink? The answe

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Li Siting, 25, has visited an elderly hospital patient for two weeks to try to persuade him to agree to surgery for lung cancer. 25岁的李思婷(音译)近两周经常去医院看望一位住院的老人,并试着说服他接受肺癌手术。

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