Comments on: Uptalk is not just speech pathology; it’s covert social engineering

By: Timothy Fitzpatrick

Timothy Fitzpatrick — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 01:41:34 +0000

In reply to Kris.

I totally agree, Kris. I also turn off any media of persons uptalking or using vocal fry. I cannot stand it. Even if it’s such an important message that I have to tolerate the pathological speech, I find myself distracted the entire time, which defeats the whole purpose of listening. Instead of listening to the message, I can’t help but focus on how ridiculous they sound. So, it’s best to just stop listening altogether. Why waste time?

There are a bunch more annoying speech habits Westerners use that I could go on about, like the excessive and inappropriate use of: “so” (in place of “well”), “having said that”, “that said”, “it’s literally”, “it is what it is”, to name a few.

I agree with your preference for British speech over largely uptalked North American or Aussie speech. It’s funny. Sometimes I will listen to foreigners speaking in their native tongues and try to see if they uptalk. They don’t do it, but when these same foreigners speak in English, they revert to uptalked English. They are training foreigners this way. There doesn’t seem to be an end in sight to this highly obnoxious devolution of English speech.

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 07:27:33 +0000

Finally, the article I have been waiting for about speech pathology. Thank you! I find this way of speaking so obnoxious, I turn off any media it is issuing from (thankfully, I don’t associate with people who speak like this). I refuse to buy products that use this accent in their advertising. It makes the speaker come across as an idiot. I associate this type of speech with tattoos and multi-colored hair…both which indicate to me a person so devoid of individuality and authenticity that they must ape those that surround themselves, just to have a personality.

What I find very, very disturbing, is that this speech, which once only was spoken only by teenage girls, is now common in all Americans. I have gotten so that the only English I can listen to without vomiting, is English spoken with a foreign accent.

By: drdblack2015David Black

drdblack2015David Black — Sat, 16 May 2015 22:16:11 +0000

Social phenomena, such as gender roles, evolve organically based on various factors – e.g. women were able to work outside the home more as labour-saving devices became available, otherwise taking care of children and a house was simply too labour-intensive.
I believe that the social engineers have tried to fool us into thinking that ideas that are labeled progressive are simply the natural organic outcome of social evolution when in fact they have hijacked these phenomena in and steered it in their desired direction. For example, Gloria Steinem was purported to be a CIA agent who accelerated certain ideas within feminism. Having the support of a such a well-organized and financed organization behind you is hardly an organic change. Now people think that it is normal to have such rapid social change. Think about the amount of pornography that is freely available. The social engineers have accelerated the pace of change artificially in order to advance their agenda.

By: Timothy Fitzpatrick

Timothy Fitzpatrick — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:42:30 +0000

In reply to dachsielady. Did you ever notice that almost all evangelical pastors use the exact same intonation and speech patterns. Their inflection rates are off the chart throughout their entire performances.

By: dachsielady

dachsielady — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:28:23 +0000

I have not encountered uptalk recently. Several years ago, I would observe young women using the word “like” like every other word. I never heard anyone speak valley girl talk except on TV.
However, speech manerisms and habits are definitely learned and are definitely part of social engineering. Of course, education starting at youngest ages is the most fertile ground for social engineering, but every aspect of our lives is being socially engineered.
Young women are being trained to be bubble brained in the content of their social speech with their peers. They focus of items of fashion and baubles and gossip. This, of course, leads more to guys objectifying women and calling them “chicks” or other degrading terms.
And all of this leads to enmity between men and women, the feminism goal of the social engineers. (Bella Abzug, Bettty Friedan, and CIA agent Gloria Steinem) This was brought to Western civilization beginning in the late 1930s by the Frankfurt School, Jewish scholars who were first kicked out of Russia and then kicked out of Germany. They brought a new kind of Marxism combined with Freudianism. The goal was to break up the family and eradicate the male-female differences and most importantly, to stamp out traditional Christian beliefs.
All of this “social engineered” speech fads and patterns is part of the total destruction of Christian society. It is to mold and manipulate and prevent people from thinking logically or thinking at all.
I am very sensitive to the various kinds of manipulative speech as I was a victim of it attending various meetings and training sessions over the years of my employment for the state government. I think trying to persuade or convince someone, by one’s speech, is fine but the content must be right and true and wise.
Real teaching conveys strong logical information in a clear logical manner. We do not have real teaching and communication by our teachers in schools anymore. John Dewey and others wiped all of that in the USA early on.
“and the light shines on in the darkness and darkness could not overcome it.” John 1:5