In reality, you sound...not so much.
It's time to upgrade your communication skills by dropping these three high school speaking habits:
Upspeak?
Are you asking me or are you telling me?
My trusty Urban Dictionary defines upspeak thusly: Affliction [...] 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).
Upspeak makes you sound unsure of what you're saying - not the expert that you aspire to be.
Vocal Creaking/Frying
I didn't know it had a name until news of the vocal frying study was published in late 2011. Now that I know that it has a name, I hear it everywhere! And it gives me an excuse to post a clip from Daria:
Are you asking me or are you telling me?
My trusty Urban Dictionary defines upspeak thusly: Affliction [...] 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).
Upspeak makes you sound unsure of what you're saying - not the expert that you aspire to be.
Vocal Creaking/Frying
I didn't know it had a name until news of the vocal frying study was published in late 2011. Now that I know that it has a name, I hear it everywhere! And it gives me an excuse to post a clip from Daria:
Don't be a Tiffany.
Qualifiers (e.g. "I think" and "I feel")
I don't pay you to feel! Just kidding. Kind of. Anything that follows "I think" is not a fact, it's an opinion. Drop the qualifiers, state the facts.
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