Dames Nationals, as much as We Your Dames have always felt that this sentiment is true & correct: We are willing to make an exception for Saga Vanecek, the perfectly named eight-year-old Swedish girl who discovered a Viking sword in a pond this summer
Dear lovely Dames, Would you be kind enough to write more about your views on upspeak? I was so interested in your wondering if it might be easier to reach consensus if everybody used it. I'm a native English speaker, so I hear it a lot. But I'm nearly seventy, maybe that's the reason I find it hard to think of an "upspeaker" as being really direct or authoritative. When upspeak first became noticed some years back, it was in the context of Valley Girl speech patterns. Now when I hear someone, especially a woman, using upspeak, it's hard for me to accept that she really knows her stuff. To me it often sounds like the speaker is hoping for affirmation, almost as if she doesn't really believe herself until someone else agrees, too.
I live in Northern Europe, and my daily language is Dutch, with some French. The Netherlands is a place that naturally seeks consensus, but the language doesn't have upspeak as a feature, at least to my ear.
So, could you elaborate a little on this, if you have the time? I'd really be interested.
Dear lovely Dames, Would you be kind enough to write more about your views on upspeak? I was so interested in your wondering if it might be easier to reach consensus if everybody used it. I'm a native English speaker, so I hear it a lot. But I'm nearly seventy, maybe that's the reason I find it hard to think of an "upspeaker" as being really direct or authoritative. When upspeak first became noticed some years back, it was in the context of Valley Girl speech patterns. Now when I hear someone, especially a woman, using upspeak, it's hard for me to accept that she really knows her stuff. To me it often sounds like the speaker is hoping for affirmation, almost as if she doesn't really believe herself until someone else agrees, too.
I live in Northern Europe, and my daily language is Dutch, with some French. The Netherlands is a place that naturally seeks consensus, but the language doesn't have upspeak as a feature, at least to my ear.
So, could you elaborate a little on this, if you have the time? I'd really be interested.
thanks.