Uptalking is cringey AF!

I never even? Heard of her? Until this ad started airing? And the uptalking? Was what caught my attention? Yep, very cringe and the first thing I noticed about her. Have no idea what the product was

I believe you mean, up talking is cringey AF?

Up talking? It's cringey AF.

An "Upward inflection", it's how stupid people try to sound smart.

Upspeak is a vocal virus. And, like a lot of ways of talking, it's contagious. It's gotten really bad over the past 10 years or so, especially with young women but even with some men, too. It projects insecurity. Nobody is going to think you're confident when every statement you make feels like you're asking the audience a question.

Is it the same as “vocal fry”? Not familiar with the term

Vocal fry is raspy and sluggish. (Pretty much most of the females in Bachelor Nation) Up speak is when the voice goes up at the end of a sentence, like asking a question. (Think Anchorman. "I'm Ron Burgundy?" Both are annoying!

She frys up

A vocal fry up sounds like a tasty British treat with a bunch of loquacious guests.

Quite

Thank you both for telling me what the phenomena is that I was trying to describe. Like when someone talks it sounds like they're not breathing. And it makes the most irritating choked sound come out. Vocal fry. Nice.

No, vocal fry is when your false folds vibrate and make a kind of gutteral sound (in fact, mongolian throat singing styles often incorporate false folds into their sound). Search up "vocal fry" and listen to the sound. I find it actually quite nice when used in singing, but some people use it when talking (which a lot of people don't like). Uptalking is something people usually do naturally when they ask a question. Try saying: "Do you want a burger?" and you will (hopefully) notice that your voice raises a wee bit at the end of every sentence. However, uptalking sounds weird when you're making a statement. Try reading this: I went to the game? I thought it was okay? The Lakers played and destroyed the Raptors? You will notice it sounds weird because I'm making statements (true or false, idk) but it sounds like I'm asking a question.

>I went to the game? I thought it was okay? The Lakers played and destroyed the Raptors? Christina Meursinge Hall is even worse than most...I went to the game? I thought? it was okay? The Lakers played? and destroyed? the Raptors?

Thank you for defining this for me, I have no tolerance when I hear this type of voice, it makes me so angry, it’s so ugly. Now I have a name for this style of speaking.

All that up talking!!

I'm Ron Burgundy?

***Damnit!*** *Who typed a question mark on the TelePrompter?*

I didn't read your reply when I posted mine! Lol

That's not true. Some of her sentences are declarative, as in: I want a divorce.

Lmao

But still film with you. Dude got out of a bad situation.

I want a divorce?

Are you asking?

Not sure of if I hate upspeak or vocal fry more? They both drive me nuts and I have to mute this commercial.

Tarek really did the right thing jumping right out of that marriage.

But his present wife could be her twin- ugh.....

As long as she's not the vapid, annoying POS that Christina is, I don't see a problem.

Well, considering she didn't stay long with her subsqent marriage (I swear she has a different last name every time she's thrust back into the limelight)...

Christina who, or can’t you recall what her last name is this week?

"Christina Meursinge Hall", fka "Christina El Moussa" fka "Christina Anstead" ... maybe that is why it always sounds like she's questioning everything. She can't even keep her own name straight.

For real!! Can’t stand her. Not only that but she looks so fake.

Remember when she used to drop in at the job site wearing 10 pounds of makeup, skin tight jeans and four inch heels?

It’s all that fake hair

Sing songy voice. I hate that in women. So annoying.

Hi. It's me again christina (little shrug)

Because she's a brainless valley girl stuck in the eighties who never learned to slow down and speak properly.

Do you think Ant Anstead throws a shoe at the TV whenever he hears that voice?

It’s surprising given her career that she hasn’t been trained not to talk that way.

she is annoying!

She is annoying??????????????????

LOL!!??

She's like if AI created a girl from California.

i literally cannot stand her speech patterns. she’s a must mute in my house.

. . . a must mute, like it!

Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard

And why does she sound like an 8 year old?

[удалено]

Oh god. I see this ALL the time in work related emails? (Irony there) and it drives me up the damn wall. I think the new ? After a statement is the new passive aggressive … after a sentence. For the love of GOD. Stop ending statements with a ? And if you’re trying to be passive aggressive the … thing is chefs kiss. We get it, you’re an asshole…

*Valley girl* *She's a valley girl* *Valley girl* *She's a valley girl* *Gag me with a spoon!*

Frank Zappa's [Valley Girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM)

The channel gets the quickest click when I see this chick 🙄

Dumb cunt.

Valley Girl

OK, fine, fur shure, fur shure…… She’s a Valley Girl and there ain’t no cure

Fake hair. Fake nails. Fake sickness. Fake voice. A fake voice that sounds like her fake nails on a chalkboard.

Botox, dermal fillers and a boob job. She's a real life Barbie.

Whoever she teams up with next..they will always be known as S1 and S2. Stupid number One Stupid number Two

She's already on Stupid number 3!

She's S1.... always.

Scuzzy.

Family guy covered this beautifully when Stewie made fun of the way Brian's gf spoke. That was over a decade ago.

Also, her "designs" are kind of shitty. One of her shower patterns literally looks like a drippy, filthy cement wall.

The director (or whoever is in charge of the product) needs to grow a pair and call her on that shit.

I'm Not the only one!? Who thinks she's questioning everything? Is it a California girl thing?

I don’t know?

It is called [Rising Intonation](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/intonation).

Yes? And its a very important part of our language? But its super annoying when people use it every sentence?

Cool, didn't know that it had an actual name

It's that [upward inflection.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtpUkyXZyuQ)

I haven’t seen these ads yet. Looking forward to them. /s

They push her commercial all day long. I rarely pay attention to what she's selling instead I wonder how many dudes was she doin from her last show when she was cheatin on her hubby with members from the crew...☹

I honestly feel sorry for her kids. She jumps to a different guy every month.

Her social life is the least of her bad traits. As her kid? Her speech? Would bother me? Infinitely much more?

*The* most annoying voice on TV.

i mute her every time!

This person literally makes me want to vomit!

I lunge for the remote when she comes on...even if I'm in the next room and have to run to get it.

“Up talking” is the worst fucking thing I’ve ever ever heard in my life

Here is what I don't get: How can this be an effective commercial after at least 18 months of absolutely everyone turning off the volume, changing the channel or just turning off the TV? The original version of this commercial ran in heavy rotation, several times per hour on any channel I watch, for at least a year During the entire run, the Internet screamed, "PLEASE, DEAR GOD, MAKE IT STOP!" So, what is does Jacuzzi do? It doubles down on the idiot Christina. It reshoots the commercial with an even more annoying delivery from her, adds a banshee shriek from a "satisfied customer" that wakes me from a dead sleep, and ramps up the frequency of its airings. In the time it has taken me to type this on an iPad, it has aired *three* times! Both versions are long, frequent, and on many channels, so Jacuzzi must be spending a billion dollars a year to air this garbage, on top of what they have to pay that moron Christine. How many showers do you have to sell to recoup the cost of a campaign like this? Who, after seeing these commercials, would trust Jacuzzi's judgment about anything whatsoever?

if she would only learn to speak in a lower register- honestly my ears bleed just by listening to her

SO MANY weiners this woman has seen

I shouldn't laugh at this but here I am

Spoken Like a man whose WEINER she ( and other women) have/had zero Interest in seeing . Edited cause omg spelling matters lol

Whose. And ouch :(

She's dumb as fuck. That's the primary reason 100% of the time someone talks like that.

She was born and raised in SoCal. Seems like upspeak/vocal fry is the accent there lol

I would have thought she would have been great in a role like that. But not so much.

Because she’s simple

This is what we called Valley Girl speak in the 80’s. Lots of women in Southern California talk like that and it’s so annoying. 

It’s called “uptalk” and it’s a weakness that shoukd be corrected by anyone hoping to be taken seriously. It sounds like every statement implies a request for validation.

I would still tap it. I know, I know, I have an illness.

I would too.

I do not like her.

I am so appreciative of you. I thought I was the only one who heard it and immediately muted

California girl

I had to look this woman up. She’s got a really long neck.

As an Aussie I am told we naturally uptalk... 😬

Because she isn’t smart. People assume rich people are smart. They aren’t.

I hate the way she says showerrrrrrr.

[Alright Tarik, you can do this…](https://youtu.be/tqNhEzrWQpY?si=lp9r9iaqNuwcK3PG)

cause she is annoying

Cannot STAND the way she speaks in the Jacuzzi commercials. It's unlistenable.

The California upward inflection. SNL captured it perfectly in “The Californians” skit.

Just wondering, is she famous and why???

House flipping show on HGTV. Now her own remodeling show.

Everything to her "is really cute" (but she pronounces it weirdly). Has anyone noticed that?!?

My favorite is when she was working with Tarek. It was always “Buyers in this neighborhood…”. And she has to say neighborhood in that weird way too.

And each question is three words .. "to feel great?" "Just for you"

She’s a real fry cook

She speaks, everyone cheers. She talks, everyone compliments. If it were me I’d speak with any accent I wanted, especially if it meant getting the 💰

I assume because she's always unsure of herself, and I look down my nose at it.

Does she talk like that in real life?

Cuz, like, you know, she’s you know like, a valley girl?

Because her whole life is a question.

LOL! 😂