At age 50, I qualified for my AARP Card, entitling me to senior citizen discounts. Years later, I earned my Curmudgeon Card. This license allows us old folks to complain about even the smallest, most ...

You're probably familiar with upspeak? Like when someone's voice goes up at the end of a sentence, even though they're not asking a question? You're likely aware of vocal fry, too — that phenomenon ...

With its upward tone at the end of a sentence, ‘upspeak’ has become an increasingly familiar sound since Neighbours arrived on our televisions in the mid-1980s. But the spread of the irritating habit ...

Maybe this is just one of my pet peeves as a college instructor who works with 20-something-year-old students. But upspeak, as it is called, is not what makes my worth living. It makes me cringe. Per ...

TheLastStraw: It's always refreshing to hear teenagers criticising the youth of today. It saves us older people from having to do it, and leaves us more time to worry about things such as the hair ...