Show Il EAKEN STATEMENT OF FACT FACTLy 8 1 Ly 1 Persons Seem to Question Their iH LEIle f I Town own Conclusions by Excessive a S Use of Rising Inflection It ills is a 1 modern conversational fad to tok Ina In- In k tie the rising and Interrogative C ti a Il great deal even when a n arra nJ fj r a ion is not oot Intended at nt all The J e t. t nn are arc t apt to use It than the thet Mick ii I led fed n few years ago ngo as e a and ad II t f L rely as ag a n ty trick of talkIng 9 no so harm in It no harm i l' thI ther th dh th n er std rl I says sass the Ohio State Journal rimes I I at It has bas been so EO very much over over- a t is and Is now so general that we 4 Inclined to wonder If It betokens a n aj j te e of mind or on the contrary If iP It ItY k likely Y to have bate an nn Influence on the 7 d. d For a n rising Inflection Implies or doubt and when apP aped ap- ap P att J a ed to a sentence that Is supposed to tot ei r. r t statement of fact It necessarily tokens dens r that statement h. h We Ife have hare heard beard people who were m some simple Inci Incident ent use b is rising Inflection so repeatedly that g a r 1 seemed to question all their own or to seem to appeal to tor r hearers r for agreement And that 1 c t Indicate just the right state of lO- lO i p M red If II a person has nas anything to 1 Cu iT aj hand and believes It he should be will will- J t c jf if 4 to state tate it quite simply and post post- J 0 re tt L 17 A A. positive statement does not 1 tIn son an aggressive One and a pert perra per- per H t ra a 1 must roust needs be In a rather pitiful Se fie e of ot fear tear of ot his hearers hearer's opinions indE ide fie ie Is afraid to utter an affirmative fK of Sence fence ence |