Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Upspeak? Does it really make women sound stupid? Yes?

There are a lot of teenagers who have this annoying speech tic...but I notice it among women at work quite frequently. Everything is a question. I must admit, I have no tolerance for this. Either you are confident in what you are saying, or you have a legitimate question. Couching one as the other defeats your purpose.

Women also use far too much wishy washy talk...stop saying "I think it might..." before you introduce an opinion at a meeting. Just say "It is..." or "It will be..." putting all those namby pamby qualifiers in front of your opinion just makes people dismiss it out of hand.

And stop populating your emails with the same sort of verbiage. Useless. Get to the point.

Ok?

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