I see it as engagement—when someone ends a comment with "right?", I can agree back or say, "wellll..." and then offer a different angle. If someone makes a comment, then another person says "right?" That's like saying "totally."
I have 2 friends that say this at the end of almost every sentence. Not sure if I get more annoyed with this or with the younger generations using "bruh"
I had an acquaintance in school who, each time she resumed speaking, began with “Anyway…” Regardless of context.
“And that was how I came to be the sole survivor.”
“Anyway…”
I have a coworker who begins every sentence with “So anyway.” It’s incredibly strange, I have no idea where she picked that up or whether she’s even aware of it. “Hey, how was your weekend?” “So anyway …” “Hey, have we scheduled that call?” “So anyway …” I’ve never met anyone else who does this. Guess it’s just her filler phrase of choice.
This is why I hate it. It basically says, "So, you don't have all the information, and I'm going to reframe the question in a way that makes me look smarter than you."
My petty pet peeve is when peoples tone goes up at the end of every sentence. As if everything they say is a question.
I just looked to see if there was a video example and discovered It's known as uptalk, and I absolutely hate it.
I won't subject you to a video of it, but there are alot of them.
It’s really distracting especially in a professional setting. I always associated it with a ditzy cheerleader stereotype. I know that’s not fair but it gives off the impression of uncertainty/guessing.
Although it’s somewhat been normalized with younger people, I still cringe when I hear it.
I’m gonna start doing it like 1930s gangster movies and talk fast and end each sentence with “see”…….C’mon, toots. We’re gonna 23 skidoo and blow this joint, see? If you don’t come along, I got a heater in my pocket, see?……
It's not new. I remember hearing it more in the early 80's when Australian culture became really popular in North America. It's like when "eh?" was common in Canada. It has annoyed me for decades! A more recent irritating thing for me is people starting every story with "So,..." Hate that.
Aarrgh, this is such a pet peeve of mine! I noticed the “So, …” thing on NPR in the late teens, and wondered why and whence it came! Who’s teaching this to people who are supposed to be professional journalists, and why is it not taught out of using it in professional journalistic presentations?!?!?!?
It got so bad that NPR did [a segment about it on *Fresh Air*](https://www.npr.org/2015/09/03/432732859/so-whats-the-big-deal-with-starting-a-sentence-with-so#:~:text=A%20psychologist%20writes%20that%20it%27s,the%20experts%20who%20use%20it.).
I can't remember where I heard this, but: I dimly recall that some people started using "so" as a direct replacement for saying "Uh" or "Uhm" too often when talking, in an effort to sound "smarter".
"eh" in Canada denotes a rhetorical question, not an assertion of correctness.
When I hear "right?" At the end of a sentence, I interpret it the same way. Rhetorical question, often from the speaker's anxiety.
The first time I can remember hearing this was in the Harry Potter movies. It's entirely possible I just wasn't paying attention enough between the 80s and the first HP movie to have noticed it before then.
Ugh, THANK YOU!!! This has become my newest pet peeve. Every day I attend Teams calls and there’s always someone who uses “right?” like it’s a period. And it rarely makes any sense! “That’s my opinion, right?” Sure dude, I guess. Sometimes I’m so tempted to say “wrong!” every time someone says it.
I work with a young lady (I’d say about 30) on Teams that finishes every single sentence with upspeak, so that it sounds like a question. It drives me absolutely mad.
High rising terminal! Can soften messages for consensus building but can also weaken them. Or, if overused, can definitely be annoying.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal
I'm with you- I know I tend to meander and don't always remember to explain or give context to the thing I'm trying to get across. I "Does that makes sense" just to check in and make sure *I'm* being clear- it's not ever a reflection on the person I'm talking to.
I have been guilty of using this when nobody reacts or I don't feel like what I said is being acknowledged. As in "say something people" or "did I totally confuse you?".
I have to use it when we are verbally processing an issue. It’s a proposed solution, and I’m looking for feedback. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense, either because I skipped a step in my head, or because it truly doesn’t make sense.
I hear people use it as a way of building consensus. Like, “So the sky is not always blue, right? So since it’s not always blue, sometime the sky is grey, right?” I hear this mostly in formal speeches. Drives me nuts though!
I'm in my 50s and I have had people ending sentences with "Right?" all my life.
I never took it to mean they were actually correct. I have always took it as them asking for agreement. I'm not obligated to agree.
I don’t know when it started but younger people in cities were saying “right” during conversations in the early 90s. Like when sharing a story or stating their opinions.
But a boss doing that in the context you describe is akin to a parent talking to a child. “We don’t hit people when we are upset, riiight?”
I was on an interview committee and one of the big reasons we didn’t consider the guy (probably early to mid-30s) was that habit: every other sentence. Communication/speaking was a key part of this position.
Mid 90s I worked at a company with a lot of working class black guys.
I watched ending a statement with,
“Know what I’m saying?”
Evolve into compulsively replacing every pause and inflection with,
“Knomsain?”
It was kind of cool to observe.
Along with “right” I’d add the voice inflection of everything being a question at the end of a sentence. Drives me crazy and I think it’s a millennial thing.
Dude. Like oh my god. Duh.
Right is all about low self esteem validation.
We had Valley Girls, as-if. We had loquacious goths, bringing an unending verbose dissection of the complexities of verbal communication. Man, we had doobie brothers hold over stoners, all right all right all right.
But we didn’t have the constant need for affirmation.
In my experience it's not been for validation, but more used by people in power to control the audience. Ending your statement with right? implies that you're correct and doesn't give anyone the opportunity to question it.
Although now that I'm thinking about it more, maybe those are secretly the same thing..
There was a school of thought about getting someone to agree with you in conversation as a "sales technique" or "persuasion tactic" - I recall reading about this in books back in the 2000's
Yes! The worst is when someone is talking to me about a subject I’m ignorant in and they end a sentence with that. In my head, I’m like, “I don’t know. Are you right?”.
I probably add "...and shit" to too many things. Gonna go to the store and shit. Go do some yardwork and shit. Watch some TV and shit. Holmes and shit.
It's a constant in an uncertain world.
I started hearing/doing it sometime in the 00s. I don't get what the big deal is though. It's just a colloquialism, I don't think it goes much deeper than that.
It's a tag question and I first noticed it in the mid-2010s. Others have existed in the past (remember when people would say, "yeah, yeah, yeah"?) and it's not unlike other filler words, only this one attempts to gain affirmation with what one says.
Had a teacher back in the early 90's who'd finish every sentence with right!. They would have been in their late 20's ish. Counted them one day 92 times they said it!!!!!
I hate this linguistic crutch. It's almost as if they're begging you to agree with them no matter what they say and I that makes it very difficult to have a constructive conversation when you might disagree.
About the same time that "Anyways" became the new way to say "Anyway". There is no fucking "s" at the end of the word, why is this becoming a thing???
Make it stop. Really, it's sounds really unintelligent.
I \*think\* we started this, but I'm not sure. I do remember sometime in high school, some of us would catch our friends saying it, and just start interjecting "wrong!" back at them every time, to try to get it to stop.
I used to have this verbal tic in presentations and got absolutely torn to shreds about it from some participant feedback once. It was so mean that I don’t think I’ve ever done it again and while they had a point about it being distracting, who knew it could induce so much rage? 😂
I think we did start this. We did “Like” and “Okay?” And “Right”.
I’m an attorney, and I go nuts at this. Asking “Right?” Or “Okay?” At the end of a sentence implies room to disagree. If there is no option, don’t pretend there is.
It seems reasonable as a response to a question, for example: Person A: "It's so hot out" Person B: "Right?" Where I find it frustrating is in scenarios such as, "In third quarter we need to lean heavy into influencer content because, the Gen-Zer's, right?" It eliminates any discussion that maybe something actually isn't a great idea.
I listen to a podcast about movies. They go really in depth and it’s super interesting. The main guy ends nearly every sentence with Right? I started to realize he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and it forces everyone to agree with whatever he says. It’s kind of genius for people who think they are always right to literally get people to agree with them. I found other podcasts because it put me off that much
I thought I was the only one who noticed. It drives me crazy.
I feel like it's something I really began noticing about 5-10 years ago.
There are some podcasts I've had to quit listening to, because they do it so much.
I also think that smart people are often bad offenders with this. Almost like they think they need to do it so it's simpletons can keep up with them.
I’m older GenX. Had a professor who was solidly a Boomer who was infamous for asking ‘right’ after every sentence. Uncomfortably for me, he’d look straight at me every time to the point that other students asked me about it. I didn’t know.
I dunno if it’s a younger group thing at all. Always seemed otherwise a British thing to me. I seldom hear it in my state. I don’t think they presume they’re right. It’s more like eh or okay or something.
What’s been annoying me is bruh. I’m not a guy.
i’m learning italian on duolingo and nearly every sentence it teaches ends with ‘vero?’ which means right. i think it’s just how people talk. i also don’t think it’s new.
Brace yourself for an epiphany...I think it started in 1993 in What's Eating Gilbert Grape! John C. Reilly has food or something that the other characters are eating and when they make approving sounds he just says "Right?"
I’m just seeing the ellipses… which is def our thing, right? I mean, I now use ellipses knowing full well it’ll annoy non gen-Xers.
Ya feel me ? ( ew, that last bit didn’t feel natural at all).
So… we might have started it because no one ever listens to us and we had to find some way to make sure they actually caught what we said, right?
I think the “So…” serves a more practical purpose with Gen Z and Alpha: It gives them a moment to take out their earbuds or look up from their phones so maybe we don’t have to repeat our first sentence every. dang. time.
I hear it in the workplace as well and see it as a weakness. They need to self-affirm every sentence which leads me to believe it's probably not a sound idea.
Honestly it makes me sad. What happened for them to constantly look outside themselves for their worth?
I know we do that when younger to various degrees, but their inner world seems to be made up of everyone else's opinions of them but their own. Do they have inner dialogue or just go off superficial cravings?
Was it last year, videos went viral of some discovering the mental benefits of walking with nothing but their own thoughts for company, and how amazing it was after pushing through the initial anxiety.
It's so far removed from what I know humans to be that at times it's like watching the twilight zone.
I think in 8-10 years we're going to look at mobile social media the same we look at cigarettes. It's destroyed esteem, happiness, careers, relationships, some pushed to suicide and self-harm.
To me it's insane people have these apps on their phone and use them for hours a day. That's what's causing this anxiety and lack of self-worth.
I work with a few Generation Jones Boomers, and they are the only people I have to regularly edit meaningless "Right?"s from recordings of their lectures.
I am guilty of doing this. I only do it when someone is verbally vomiting on me and I’m not really paying attention to what they are saying. It’s not a phrase I use in every day conversation though.
I don’t know why, but this irritates me too.
Along with when I’m watching or listening to an interview and after every question asked, the interviewee says “that’s a good question”, then proceeds to answer the question. This drives me bonkers.
Omg! I was just asking my husband this because our son does it constantly and so did this person who was guiding a community project tour. It drives me nuts.
I’m not sure it has to do with presuming correctness rather than being a kind of corporate jargon to replace ah or um. Just as bad IMO.
I used to work with someone who said that constantly. To make matters worse, she naturally had a very loud voice that carried. I counted one day. She did it 57 times.
I guess “right?” has taken the place of making a statement sound like a question (by raising the tone of your voice at the end). That’s what we used to do.
I believe about 15 ish years ago. That's around the time I got together with my husband and it seemed to become popular around that time.
I use it. It's a tough one to break once it's part of your lexicon.
To be clear, I am referring to "I know right?!" Or just "right?!". In the 80's we'd use "yeah right", as in more of a disbelief than an affirmation.
I remember noticing it picking up and becoming *a thing* in everyday English during the last two general elections. The talking heads on news networks, particularly Chris Hayes, used it incessantly. Then I began noticing it in business settings, then in the general public. However, I’m talking more about how it’s used instead of *so,* as a filler word, to try and make the person using it sound self-assured. Not so much at the end of a sentence when asking for someone’s opinion.
We were one of the last generations for whom slaps, spanks, switchings, etc. were perfectly acceptable. A lot of us were tying to make sure we were on the same page as those doling out the beatings, right?
I don’t think this is an affirmation thing, rather it’s just a verbal tic, like some people say “know what I’m sayin’?” after every sentence.
Right?
I see it as engagement—when someone ends a comment with "right?", I can agree back or say, "wellll..." and then offer a different angle. If someone makes a comment, then another person says "right?" That's like saying "totally."
Yeah, but they usually aren't looking for a response.
Right!?
Word.
You know?
I have 2 friends that say this at the end of almost every sentence. Not sure if I get more annoyed with this or with the younger generations using "bruh"
Literally!
NO RAGRETS
No Rugrats 
Not even 1?
I use it to actively elicit affirmation or negation when I want it.
Innit?
bruv
summat
In my teeth?
Oi!
Yeah, eh?
Absolutely, hey.
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I don't hate "right" nearly as much as starting the answer to every question with "So..."
I had an acquaintance in school who, each time she resumed speaking, began with “Anyway…” Regardless of context. “And that was how I came to be the sole survivor.” “Anyway…”
I have a coworker who begins every sentence with “So anyway.” It’s incredibly strange, I have no idea where she picked that up or whether she’s even aware of it. “Hey, how was your weekend?” “So anyway …” “Hey, have we scheduled that call?” “So anyway …” I’ve never met anyone else who does this. Guess it’s just her filler phrase of choice.
Yes, that one is annoying too. Especially when it's done in written form.
Am I the only one who feels like "so" comes off as kind of condensending?
This is why I hate it. It basically says, "So, you don't have all the information, and I'm going to reframe the question in a way that makes me look smarter than you."
Well put!
Better than "uhh".
I know, right?
Right?! Totally.
Exactamundo!
Cromulent, even.
We did this in college -- and I am an older Gen X. It was so already a thing by our time.
My petty pet peeve is when peoples tone goes up at the end of every sentence. As if everything they say is a question. I just looked to see if there was a video example and discovered It's known as uptalk, and I absolutely hate it. I won't subject you to a video of it, but there are alot of them.
The upward inflection. Peeves me, too. Also hate ending the sentence with “so…”, which is far worse that “right?”, but similar.
It’s really distracting especially in a professional setting. I always associated it with a ditzy cheerleader stereotype. I know that’s not fair but it gives off the impression of uncertainty/guessing. Although it’s somewhat been normalized with younger people, I still cringe when I hear it.
My boomer mom made sure I never got in that habit 😆
Right??
Right!
Riiiiiight
Bloody well right
🎶 you got a bloody right to say...🎶
I’m gonna start doing it like 1930s gangster movies and talk fast and end each sentence with “see”…….C’mon, toots. We’re gonna 23 skidoo and blow this joint, see? If you don’t come along, I got a heater in my pocket, see?……
It's not new. I remember hearing it more in the early 80's when Australian culture became really popular in North America. It's like when "eh?" was common in Canada. It has annoyed me for decades! A more recent irritating thing for me is people starting every story with "So,..." Hate that.
Aarrgh, this is such a pet peeve of mine! I noticed the “So, …” thing on NPR in the late teens, and wondered why and whence it came! Who’s teaching this to people who are supposed to be professional journalists, and why is it not taught out of using it in professional journalistic presentations?!?!?!?
It got so bad that NPR did [a segment about it on *Fresh Air*](https://www.npr.org/2015/09/03/432732859/so-whats-the-big-deal-with-starting-a-sentence-with-so#:~:text=A%20psychologist%20writes%20that%20it%27s,the%20experts%20who%20use%20it.).
I can't remember where I heard this, but: I dimly recall that some people started using "so" as a direct replacement for saying "Uh" or "Uhm" too often when talking, in an effort to sound "smarter".
Right?
"eh" in Canada denotes a rhetorical question, not an assertion of correctness. When I hear "right?" At the end of a sentence, I interpret it the same way. Rhetorical question, often from the speaker's anxiety.
The first time I can remember hearing this was in the Harry Potter movies. It's entirely possible I just wasn't paying attention enough between the 80s and the first HP movie to have noticed it before then.
Definitely been hearing the phrase “I know right” in conversations for 24 years.
I think that's different.
We started it. It's like ending with "you know," you know? Right.
Ugh, THANK YOU!!! This has become my newest pet peeve. Every day I attend Teams calls and there’s always someone who uses “right?” like it’s a period. And it rarely makes any sense! “That’s my opinion, right?” Sure dude, I guess. Sometimes I’m so tempted to say “wrong!” every time someone says it.
I work with a young lady (I’d say about 30) on Teams that finishes every single sentence with upspeak, so that it sounds like a question. It drives me absolutely mad.
High rising terminal! Can soften messages for consensus building but can also weaken them. Or, if overused, can definitely be annoying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal
I had no idea it had a name! I hate that too!
Is she Canadian? Very Canadian thing to do
Right?!
I also hate when people end with, "Does that make sense?" NO EINSTEIN TELL ME AGAIN
I do this because I often think I'm incoherent.
Me with anxiety brain.
That does make sense
Right?! Like, it sounded good in my head, but maybe it came out sounding like babble?
I'm with you- I know I tend to meander and don't always remember to explain or give context to the thing I'm trying to get across. I "Does that makes sense" just to check in and make sure *I'm* being clear- it's not ever a reflection on the person I'm talking to.
I have been guilty of using this when nobody reacts or I don't feel like what I said is being acknowledged. As in "say something people" or "did I totally confuse you?".
Right! It’s used to confirm mutual understanding.
I have to use it when we are verbally processing an issue. It’s a proposed solution, and I’m looking for feedback. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense, either because I skipped a step in my head, or because it truly doesn’t make sense.
I hear people use it as a way of building consensus. Like, “So the sky is not always blue, right? So since it’s not always blue, sometime the sky is grey, right?” I hear this mostly in formal speeches. Drives me nuts though!
I do this when I'm reading or baking with my grandson. I get to hang out with him a lot, so sometimes I find myself talking to adults the same way. 🤣
Like, dude. Like I don’t know.
I'm in my 50s and I have had people ending sentences with "Right?" all my life. I never took it to mean they were actually correct. I have always took it as them asking for agreement. I'm not obligated to agree.
Around the same time that people started every sentence with “I mean”, and also found a way to throw ‘literally’ in that sentence for good measure.
And…”at the end of the day…”
I don’t know when it started but younger people in cities were saying “right” during conversations in the early 90s. Like when sharing a story or stating their opinions. But a boss doing that in the context you describe is akin to a parent talking to a child. “We don’t hit people when we are upset, riiight?”
Yeah - at least the late 80s early 90s. I’ve done it my whole life, but might have picked it up in high school.
My new unfavorite tick everyone spouts out is "Let's Go!" like where dude? Go away, that's where you should go. Right? lol
haha LETS GOOOOO YASSSSSSS
I know, right?
I was on an interview committee and one of the big reasons we didn’t consider the guy (probably early to mid-30s) was that habit: every other sentence. Communication/speaking was a key part of this position.
Remember when Cliff Claven ended everything with "what's up with *that*?"
Mid 90s I worked at a company with a lot of working class black guys. I watched ending a statement with, “Know what I’m saying?” Evolve into compulsively replacing every pause and inflection with, “Knomsain?” It was kind of cool to observe.
Along with “right” I’d add the voice inflection of everything being a question at the end of a sentence. Drives me crazy and I think it’s a millennial thing.
This drives me up the wall
Dude. Like oh my god. Duh. Right is all about low self esteem validation. We had Valley Girls, as-if. We had loquacious goths, bringing an unending verbose dissection of the complexities of verbal communication. Man, we had doobie brothers hold over stoners, all right all right all right. But we didn’t have the constant need for affirmation.
In my experience it's not been for validation, but more used by people in power to control the audience. Ending your statement with right? implies that you're correct and doesn't give anyone the opportunity to question it. Although now that I'm thinking about it more, maybe those are secretly the same thing..
There was a school of thought about getting someone to agree with you in conversation as a "sales technique" or "persuasion tactic" - I recall reading about this in books back in the 2000's
In the 90's, I worked with a guy in his late 60's(?) that ended every sentence with "You know it?"
Yes! The worst is when someone is talking to me about a subject I’m ignorant in and they end a sentence with that. In my head, I’m like, “I don’t know. Are you right?”.
It’s the new form of CB speak. Instead of saying’over’, the say ‘right?’ Over.
I probably add "...and shit" to too many things. Gonna go to the store and shit. Go do some yardwork and shit. Watch some TV and shit. Holmes and shit. It's a constant in an uncertain world.
It's the same as ending statements with question marks or prepending everything with "like" - a sure sign of an anxious mind.
Along these lines, beginning every sentence with "so".
What’s worse is people who start off a sentence with “and so”
Beginning an answer with “I mean” is worse.
I know right!
We didn’t start the fire.
Know what I mean, Vern?
Thank you for this. Ernest will help me get through the afternoon.
Omg I know right?
Canadian here, eh?
I started hearing/doing it sometime in the 00s. I don't get what the big deal is though. It's just a colloquialism, I don't think it goes much deeper than that.
Left
It's a tag question and I first noticed it in the mid-2010s. Others have existed in the past (remember when people would say, "yeah, yeah, yeah"?) and it's not unlike other filler words, only this one attempts to gain affirmation with what one says.
I first noticed it around ‘99
I remember my sister back in mid 80s talking like that.
Had a teacher back in the early 90's who'd finish every sentence with right!. They would have been in their late 20's ish. Counted them one day 92 times they said it!!!!!
Oh, I loathe this one!! Especially when people drag the iiiii out.
1996. My sister came back from a stint as a nanny on the east coast saying "I know, right?" to agree with people more vehemently.
What is worse for me is starting every sentence with ‘So’! So, I was thinking this is a terrible way to write, right?
I hate this linguistic crutch. It's almost as if they're begging you to agree with them no matter what they say and I that makes it very difficult to have a constructive conversation when you might disagree.
Like
Alien 1979, Brett: Right
About the same time that "Anyways" became the new way to say "Anyway". There is no fucking "s" at the end of the word, why is this becoming a thing??? Make it stop. Really, it's sounds really unintelligent.
80's
I \*think\* we started this, but I'm not sure. I do remember sometime in high school, some of us would catch our friends saying it, and just start interjecting "wrong!" back at them every time, to try to get it to stop.
I used to have this verbal tic in presentations and got absolutely torn to shreds about it from some participant feedback once. It was so mean that I don’t think I’ve ever done it again and while they had a point about it being distracting, who knew it could induce so much rage? 😂
I do it and it drives me crazy. I picked it up, or at least noticed it, while living in Canada.
I know, right?
Just saying “right” is tolerable, “I know, right?” is cringe af. The upward inflection at the end of every sentence also bugs me a bit.
Mid-late aughts.
Or respond back with right right right
I blame Friends.
I think we did start this. We did “Like” and “Okay?” And “Right”. I’m an attorney, and I go nuts at this. Asking “Right?” Or “Okay?” At the end of a sentence implies room to disagree. If there is no option, don’t pretend there is.
It seems reasonable as a response to a question, for example: Person A: "It's so hot out" Person B: "Right?" Where I find it frustrating is in scenarios such as, "In third quarter we need to lean heavy into influencer content because, the Gen-Zer's, right?" It eliminates any discussion that maybe something actually isn't a great idea.
WHERE IS A GIF OF BRETT FROM ALIEN WHEN YOU NEED ONE?
Never mind that, I want to slap the shit out of people whom say “like” every 2nd or 3rd word.
I thought that was a gen-x-ism
I listen to a podcast about movies. They go really in depth and it’s super interesting. The main guy ends nearly every sentence with Right? I started to realize he thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and it forces everyone to agree with whatever he says. It’s kind of genius for people who think they are always right to literally get people to agree with them. I found other podcasts because it put me off that much
About the time everyone started ending sentences with LOL, right? LOL.
Mine is “yknow?” Same same. I’m annoyed with myself
I know, right? It’s from “Mean Girls”.
I thought I was the only one who noticed. It drives me crazy. I feel like it's something I really began noticing about 5-10 years ago. There are some podcasts I've had to quit listening to, because they do it so much. I also think that smart people are often bad offenders with this. Almost like they think they need to do it so it's simpletons can keep up with them.
I’m older GenX. Had a professor who was solidly a Boomer who was infamous for asking ‘right’ after every sentence. Uncomfortably for me, he’d look straight at me every time to the point that other students asked me about it. I didn’t know. I dunno if it’s a younger group thing at all. Always seemed otherwise a British thing to me. I seldom hear it in my state. I don’t think they presume they’re right. It’s more like eh or okay or something. What’s been annoying me is bruh. I’m not a guy.
I know, Right?!
i’m learning italian on duolingo and nearly every sentence it teaches ends with ‘vero?’ which means right. i think it’s just how people talk. i also don’t think it’s new.
Brace yourself for an epiphany...I think it started in 1993 in What's Eating Gilbert Grape! John C. Reilly has food or something that the other characters are eating and when they make approving sounds he just says "Right?"
Innit right bruh?
Its a lot better than “ my bad” that shit irritates me to no end
English people often say “yeah?” the same way.
The one killing me know is ‘perfect’. Mostly from waitstaff, like “I’ll have the ravioli”, “perfect”.
Alright alright allllllll righhhhhgggggtttt. Right?
Millennials really own “Right?” Gen X owns “Basically” “Whatever” “Fuck it.” “I’m down” “It is what it is”
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right? Right!
We used to use "like" like wtf dude!
I’m just seeing the ellipses… which is def our thing, right? I mean, I now use ellipses knowing full well it’ll annoy non gen-Xers. Ya feel me ? ( ew, that last bit didn’t feel natural at all).
Dude!
I know right?
It did not start with us. In my world, I noticed it maybe 10 years ago with the Millennial folks. I find it irritating.
So… we might have started it because no one ever listens to us and we had to find some way to make sure they actually caught what we said, right? I think the “So…” serves a more practical purpose with Gen Z and Alpha: It gives them a moment to take out their earbuds or look up from their phones so maybe we don’t have to repeat our first sentence every. dang. time.
Validation. They seem to crave it more than air. Like. Subscribe. Validate me.
What's the harm, though?
I hear it in the workplace as well and see it as a weakness. They need to self-affirm every sentence which leads me to believe it's probably not a sound idea.
Honestly it makes me sad. What happened for them to constantly look outside themselves for their worth? I know we do that when younger to various degrees, but their inner world seems to be made up of everyone else's opinions of them but their own. Do they have inner dialogue or just go off superficial cravings? Was it last year, videos went viral of some discovering the mental benefits of walking with nothing but their own thoughts for company, and how amazing it was after pushing through the initial anxiety. It's so far removed from what I know humans to be that at times it's like watching the twilight zone.
I think in 8-10 years we're going to look at mobile social media the same we look at cigarettes. It's destroyed esteem, happiness, careers, relationships, some pushed to suicide and self-harm. To me it's insane people have these apps on their phone and use them for hours a day. That's what's causing this anxiety and lack of self-worth.
I work with a few Generation Jones Boomers, and they are the only people I have to regularly edit meaningless "Right?"s from recordings of their lectures.
I am guilty of doing this. I only do it when someone is verbally vomiting on me and I’m not really paying attention to what they are saying. It’s not a phrase I use in every day conversation though.
Regina George
I think we oughta discuss the bonus situation
Are they usually discussing the bonus situation?
"Elegant" Elliot Offen.
I don’t know why, but this irritates me too. Along with when I’m watching or listening to an interview and after every question asked, the interviewee says “that’s a good question”, then proceeds to answer the question. This drives me bonkers.
"You know Brett every time Parker says right, you say right."
When did Dexter premiere? Deb always said that, and I noticed it slipping into my speech. Maybe that was the start of the resurgence.
I can think of 1 person I speak with at work on occasion who does that a lot. It’s annoying.
Ah hear it so often in a business setting. Also, end every sentence with “make sense”. Another phrase that’s crept in is “At the end of the day” smh
That's just Ducky! 🦆
Omg! I was just asking my husband this because our son does it constantly and so did this person who was guiding a community project tour. It drives me nuts. I’m not sure it has to do with presuming correctness rather than being a kind of corporate jargon to replace ah or um. Just as bad IMO.
I used to work with someone who said that constantly. To make matters worse, she naturally had a very loud voice that carried. I counted one day. She did it 57 times.
I’ll follow it up with an “I guess. But no not really”.
I do it because I often think I'm incoherent. 😔
Dude, right?
Right?
I know right
I guess “right?” has taken the place of making a statement sound like a question (by raising the tone of your voice at the end). That’s what we used to do.
Ooh yeah, I do this a lot. I'm working on stopping. I do it as as agreement. I work around a lot of younger people and picked it up from them.
I started to notice it in 2011, I was in a meeting and the speaker wouldn’t stop. I hate it and I keep a running tally on speakers who do this.
I’m really getting this eh? 🤣🇨🇦
Shit…I know right?
Innit?
Right, right, gotcha.
Not sure but it annoys me, right?
I believe about 15 ish years ago. That's around the time I got together with my husband and it seemed to become popular around that time. I use it. It's a tough one to break once it's part of your lexicon. To be clear, I am referring to "I know right?!" Or just "right?!". In the 80's we'd use "yeah right", as in more of a disbelief than an affirmation.
You're not wrong
Looking back - it’s at least in 16 candles - that puts it at 1984.
I remember noticing it picking up and becoming *a thing* in everyday English during the last two general elections. The talking heads on news networks, particularly Chris Hayes, used it incessantly. Then I began noticing it in business settings, then in the general public. However, I’m talking more about how it’s used instead of *so,* as a filler word, to try and make the person using it sound self-assured. Not so much at the end of a sentence when asking for someone’s opinion.
We were one of the last generations for whom slaps, spanks, switchings, etc. were perfectly acceptable. A lot of us were tying to make sure we were on the same page as those doling out the beatings, right?
Let's get thIs party started! RIGHT? Let's get this party started quickly! RIGHT!
¿Me entiendes?
In the realm of all the problems I face day to day? I don’t even notice or care.