{"id":2990,"date":"2006-05-04T12:48:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/05\/04\/like-uptalk"},"modified":"2006-05-04T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T10:48:20","slug":"like-uptalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/05\/04\/like-uptalk","title":{"rendered":"Like, Uptalk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002967.html\">Are you an uptalker?<\/a> You know? Like when everything you say sounds like an interrogatory statement?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had no idea that a change in the &#8220;intonation contour&#8221; of a sentence, as linguists put it, could be as contagious as the common cold. But before long I noticed a Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation in my own speech. I first heard it when I myself was leaving a message. &#8220;This is Jim Gorman? I&#8217;m doing an article on Klingon? The language? From &#8216;Star Trek&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you an uptalker? You know? Like when everything you say sounds like an interrogatory statement? I had no idea that a change in the &#8220;intonation contour&#8221; of a sentence, as linguists put it, could be as contagious as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/05\/04\/like-uptalk\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-cult","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}