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That has always enraged me, thanks for putting into words.


It's not only unaesthetic, but also ^makes it harder to distinguish when people are actually asking questions^.

For example, when someone says, "So, we're going there" with the high-rising terminal, uptalkers have polluted that resource which is spoken language to the point that it makes it harder to tell if the sentence was a question or an imperative.




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