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AAHHH!!! Also, I heard earlier on a My Pillow commercial a similar error which I failed to write down. Many people ARE taking advantage of the hot weather. NOW, I substitute. Its sort of a way to soften, to be kind of vague, imprecise and uncommitted. Hearing fingernails down a blackboard couldnt be more excruciating than vocal fry, and the stress I experience when not being able to tell the person doing it to stop it is hard to deal with. I m hearing the phrases theres no doubt about it and theres no question about it and the variations: no doubt about it, no doubt, no question about it, and no question. Great job! He recently tweeted, "I've said this before, I'll say it again. At work, I am surrounded by intelligent and well-educated women in their 20s to 40s who speak this way. EVERY FRICKIN interview has yeah yeah yeah!, more and more in the past 6 or so months. What happened to Have a good day/afternoon/evening/morning ? And, while you're at it, also check out Amanda Hess' take on the vocal-fry debateaka Why Old Men Find Young Women's Voices So Annoyinghere. As he remarkedthey have to teach to the middle to create any sense of moving forward in such large groups. Hansen earned her MFA in Acting from Brandeis University, and has additionally studied in New York and France, at the Guthrie Theatre, and at Studio Theatre Conservatory. Also on the rise Yah, Yah to express approval, agreement, excitement. Recently I have noticed what I call the Consonant Drag where the speaker is explaining something and they drag the consonants as if to give them space to think it out. In fact, theres a show on HBO where EVERY lady character has a speech impediment. Im so glad someone has identified moronic speech that has gone from thoughtful Well,. to the contrary So, as if theyre indicating a confirmation summation that theirs is the correction of an issue. I believe young women demonstrate many of these generational tics in an attempt to make themselves sound more attractive: The vocal fry to try to avoid high-pitched speech; the moan at the end of sentences to make it sexier; the schwa-ing to sound more intelligent. You might hear the rich baritone of Bob Edwards. Have I become a crotchety old fart or is Idiocracy truly upon us? Great article. For example, in Alabama, pen and pin are pronounced the same way. Probably because I was born in the 70s and obviously grew up in valley girl 80s. I am Jack and this? This is exactly what Im looking for the name of The inflected list is the most common/overused pattern of speech. They are also signaling their frustration that they cannot complete their thoughts. Im trying to find this info, too. Anyone who thinks these things dont (or shouldnt) matter should think again. It has an r in it (two , to be pendantic) and I am not a child. airlines. Its almost excusable (almost) to hear uptalk from an entry level early 20-something, however, Im really not sure how a middle aged VP becomes an uptalker. Kind of (or sort of) This tidbit is used anywhere in the middle, as a way to not say what you really mean. Duffin said voice critiques don't bother her personally but that she worries they limit who feels welcome on the air. infomercial voice overs and direct response marketing, Voice Over Trends 2023: Less Looking, More Listening, Is the Golden Age of Voice Over Gone? Filed Under: Fun Stuff Tagged With: Featured, patterns, speech, voice over style. If I were paying someone to speak on TV I would insist that they use the correct pronunciations. They were you know, I mean, and I mean like. The young woman interviewing them had the most annoying high pitched upspeak that I could not continue, and when I read the comments, many people commented on how annoying the so-called journalist was. Perhaps its an attempt to prevent them from rushing their sentences. Good to know I am not the only person being annoyed by the way women robot-speak to the latest trend. And singing involves a Melody AND talent. She creaked so much that I literally couldnt understand a word she was saying. The number one ear-bleeding one is shtraight down the shtreet there are theesh trees and a shtop shign. Is this the new trend? Amazing this, and amazing that PLEASE STOP NOW! Its kind of like way better than going to the library. Soft, gentle words rising to hard, forceful preaching, followed by applause and cheering! I thought it must be a local thing. They probably started out as texting shortcuts, but the two I cant stand are LOL crammed into every sentence, and OMG at the beginning of every sentence. It makes the person listening want to say Please, just get to the point!, Can I just add..yeh yeh yeh yeh.. (in a convonot a song chorus. It will not be a sad day for me when vocal fry becomes a bygone trend. Its come to the point that Im grateful when a guest says Youre welcome at the end. Shes also picked up on all the popular, irritating ways of speaking. Ive noticed that, too. I watch a lot of YouTube news videos and even a simple yes/no question is nearly always answered by starting with So, I mean.. To totally be, but, like, its totally not! While it may not be pleasing to US, it may be a more recognizable and standard sound to those who are currently hiring VO talent, or even on-camera talent. The 10th Ammendment says differently. To add to the I mean, is .I feel like, I have the pleasure of working with some folks that include these in every single spoken sentence. It sounds like theyre saying, Think yeeough. in a rude, snobby, sneer down the nose at you manner. I mean, hello! But even more bothersome is the growing ubiquity of Thank you having me in response to a host or interviewer saying Thank you to a guest at the end of a segment, or even in response to Thank you for joining us at the beginning of their conversation. The latest speech fad that I am noticing a lot, here in the UK, in presenters on the radio, interviews, everywhere in fact, with seemingly well educated people, is that they are suddenly starting to drop their Ts in the middle of words-poveree(poverty) clariee(clarity) etc theyre all doing it. The first part of the sentence is on a lower pitch and then last word is HIGHerrr, and then the next is back to the first lower and last word is in the MIDDleee , etc. speech pattern had a name, because someone in my house started doing it and they are driving me crazy! Others, over exaggerated, more perfect, funner and many more. Is it hormones in food? A reporter asks a politician something like, Do you support the bill before congress that blah, blah blah [whatever the details]. 'Planet money,' 'This American Life,' 'Radiolab,' 'Startup' Why? You know This phrase is increasingly being usedat the beginning of the sentence as a lead-in. I found this sight because I searched to see if I was the only one annoyed by sentences starting with So , which I find very annoying. And what about people now pronouncing the t in often? We dont pronounce the t in soften, of fasten, or glisten. Where Youre welcome implies that you went out of your way and accept their thanks as your praise. The one I cant stand is S-backing where they say shhtreet, shhhtrike, dishhhtraction. There are a lot of great voices too though. And their voices reflect indelible features of their backgrounds where they're from and the voices they grew up with. For instance LAST becomes LOST. That authenticity is key to NPR's original mission to "celebrate the human experience as infinitely varied." I just do not understand why voice overs must be so impersonal and what the show producer clearly sees as professional or some kind of the standard tone. Vocal fry is one of the main voice complaints sent to the Invisibilia team, said project manager Liana Simstrom, who handles audience engagement for the narrative podcast about human behavior. Speaking to NPR's Code Switch on his thoughts, he said, "Without being directly told, people like me learn that our way of speaking isn't professional, and you start to imitate the standard or even hide the distinctive features of your own voice. Its a good question.. uuuh-eem.. if we look at the sortve.. cultural implications.. implications.. we we find that people.. generally are all victims of being annoying.. That means some listeners have to adjust to new sounds. Theres no k sound in the word, yet many people want to pronounce it as though there is. We drink when we hear Emily Bazelon and her cronies say ta on the Political Gabfest. I dont care where you are from, how heavy your accent is of that area or even if you dont have a higher education, but if you can speak in a way that is commanding (rather than many of the demanding ways people converse now), you can talk about any subject, and I will be interested. The NPR Podcast. I have worked as a journalist for over 25 years, and I do not work in television for a reason. My current favorite is folks who add the word literally to every statement. So. Super annoying! Those experiences felt like subtle whitewashing of his voice. And yes they sound condescending. Even if something just happened and I witnessed it with him. The one Im most sick of hearing and seeing is OMG.its not only extremely annoying and offensive, it makes the person using this abbreviation seem ignorant, unintelligent and immature, but it also happens to be highly blasphemous. Ive been listening to a lot of podcasts lately and obviously, most of them have commercials. That one really gets me. There are so many of these annoying speech patterns and they are contagious. HI Joan, We receive a regular stream of complaints about how reporters and hosts talk on air. that the odds are every one of those comments is directly speaking to another comment directed indirectly to another comment and so on? Im British and cant say Ive ever heard anyone say Yes, no to answer a question, so Im pretty sure its not trendy amongst British speakers. Do you see the bu**un? I dont see nobody there., Double negatives scream, I am uneducated! I once changed my childs preschool because his teacher said, We aint got no time for that. (Aint is another awful one.) I think that the person doing it wants to signal that they would have more to say about a thing but they really do not have any more ammunition. And when people speak without a script they often use filler words or make minor grammatical mistakes. Im sorry to say that the age old requirement to communicate accurately both verbally and in writing, and to effectively be your true self while communicating, is rapidly being lost to us all, in favour of these Social Media / Reality TV educated fools who cant be bothered to spell a word properly or fully, or string a coherent sentence together without an emoji! You two have made so many excellent points! A long list of complaints I violently agree with. No. Agree! It hurts my ears! 4) adding definately before every verb This American Life even did a segment on the negative messages their women reporters receive about vocal fry. Someone must start these silly fads. But journalists can sound clear without all sounding the same. We really owe a lot to the guy who invented that, I mean, really. Our and Hour is pronounced and sounds the same. I hate those words as they sound so false but we all use them. My gripe is mainly with broadcasting media, films, books, articles, any sort of communication authority, that has embraced these habits. I view the word "like" in the entire opposite manner than a lot of those critics. Cant find a term for my 2nd pet peeve listing options with an affected inflection for each as in . They are rampant in the South. Of course, once he shared them with me,I started hearing them, too. You can read opened up by the person being interviewed by a magazine or newspaper and it makes me cringe. The best example is stuDENT. Yes, I have an accent, but I use proper English as my model to imitate. The whiny and drawn-out words, how can I cite an example? Now, once in a while I see the dramatic purpose of such a structure, but every dang time, every single dialogue. I couldnt continue to watch. Oh my Godd-uh! National faves: Jack Speer, Megna Chakhrabarti, Terry Gross National do-not-calls: Kai Ryssdal, Charlie Pierce sunnymentoaddict 6 yr. ago It seems all females under age 35 speak this way. Hmm How about overuse of exclamation points? or common mispronunciation: Realtor, not Real a tor. I think it was around this time that the issue of vocal fry came to the foreground on NPR. Maybe this has already been mentioned, but I find it a bit irksome when someone emphasizes the obvious by saying, Hello! As in, Everyone knows the Earth is round. He wrote to us about his experience hearing reporters who did not sound like he does. Liana Van Nostrand (@lbvannostrand) is an intern for the Public Editor's office. very prevalent among high school kids and their teachers. Not sure. Uptalk, a subset of valspeak, is the habit of producing a rising inflection as if youre asking a question even when youre not? Other reporters hone their delivery as well. May I direct my fellow annoyed speech watchers to a major culprit leading to these speech patterns? I cant stand amazing. Or adding the wrong vowels to words for instance making the word food sound more like fewd. So, you probably already know about vocal fry, valspeak and uptalk, right? ", In the ensuing #PubRadioVoice conversation, now-host of Weekend Edition Sunday Lulu Garcia-Navarro tweeted about a similar experience. That drives me INSANE!!!! He joins us. I dont know of any name for that But reading your comment makes me think that maybe a lot of this type of speaking comes as a side effect of the Youtube and social media age, where people try to stand out and get noticed any way that they can. Lets take a selfie of you and I. Like things like like because its just, like, beyond ubiquitous and you already know about it. One person in particular uses a combination of vocal fry (at times), saying so at the end of sentences, using upspeak, AND drawing words out (I guess while thinking of what to say). This had to have started with someonemaybe a Kardashian? One sound that some listeners are still adjusting to is often-called "vocal fry," a tendency to use a lower vocal register that can make words sound "creaky" as the vocal cords flap together. This one comes at the end of sentences, apparently to encourage or sometimes subtly force agreement on the listener. YESSSS!,,,,,, the staccato speech is driving me away from tv. is You get the idea. Viewers would be fascinated It is not just annoying, it sounds absolutely ridiculous. METAPHORICALLY no one? The pervasive use of hypophora, mostly in spoken media, is more than annoying to me! I have two. Someone above grits their teeth at Americans and Brits speaking. And when reporters and hosts deviate from that supposed standard, our office hears about it. Guest (author/pundit/wannabe politician): Sure, so, moving forward, we obviously want to first see what reopening would look like, then secure the strategic infrastructure to sort of make that happen in this space (apparent reference to safe space). Sometimes reporters do incorporate feedback about their delivery. The vast majority of voice complaints that come into our office concern women and reporters of color. How did this start? So, what weve found in our research is that people tend to add this word as a way to sound informal yet still be an expert.. I can deal with that but having to stand there and not be able to express a thought is just too much. I was going to ask her if she had a sore throat but decided to be nice and just get the hell out of there as quickly as possible. Thats the main reason why most adults eventually decide its in their best interests to lose the bad habits. Heres one that you didnt feature maybe it doesnt count but its wrong and its annoying. I am also hearing a and an used incorrectly. On those rare occasions when I hear an interview with someone who is profoundly lacking all of these five patterns, it is such a breath of fresh air! I have a friend who can code switch very well. Credibility goes out the window. I have noticed lately female newscasters seemingly trying to avoid monotony by raising then lowering the pitch of the last syllable in a sentence. Yes, I understand that my fixated attention on these patterns is what is causing me to be distracted. She suddenly realizes she slipped into AAVE for a few words because we were speaking casually. thank you again for such a thoughtful response. Anyone who wishes to sound like an idiot is well within his or her rights to do so. Yet literally all of my female colleagues get constant criticism for how they speak or sound" He told me, except for two pronunciation corrections, he has never received a complaint about his voice or speaking manner even though, by his assessment, he uses "like" and "um" just as much as the women on the NPR Politics Podcast. What game? Yeah, no. It seems that amazing has become the new awesome. New Hampshire Public Radio and the Warren B. Rudman Center were proud to welcome NPR White House Correspondent Ayesha Rascoe as the next speaker in our Justi. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. There are two in particular that drive me insane: different than and misnomer.. ", Another listener from Minnesota wrote that "millennial correspondents" who speak with vocal fry "seems to counter NPR's high standards. thanks Rebecca for chiming in with your comment from your perspective as an educator/coach. I may be a little looser with my language, grammar, slang with my close girlfriend than in a business or unfamiliar situation. Youre totally right. She has taught throughout the Washington metropolitan area, including the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and American University. But I have to make one addendum to the use of right? (a word I view as a form of conversational bullying). The way peoplearenowpurposely talking slow as though everyone theyre speaking to is a moron? Im not about to watch that show just to find out, though. "You're on the air, not having a conversation with a buddy in a bar. 3) saying een for ingas in goeen or stayeen for going or coming ^ That, I hear all the time (Southern California). An interesting one this one. attack becomes attawwk; radio becomes rawwdio. She said she wants to give reporters more control of their voices to increase their storytelling options. It's BS. How about But uh.. ?? I had never noticed the yeah yeah yeah but within ten minutes I heard it on tv. Some of the family members have a better capacity to use words, language & phraseology than others that still use upspeak, vocalfry, text slang & whining. I am glad you are pointing them as incorrect and idiotic. As a mother of 2 teens, I can certainly relate. Many shop assistants think they are being kind referring to me as Sweetheart or Hun. Recently, I went onto YouTube to look for videos of the late actress Conchata Ferrell, and I found an interview with her and co-star Holland Taylor. To me, thats like criticising someone who stutters, besides being a tool to stonewall me. One thing that bothers me is when people pronounce the word ancient as ankshent. So, I woke uuuuup. They rise the inflection of the words at the end of every sentence. They're actually choosing their path and doing the steering.". Alison MacAdam April 30, 2015. Credit: Emily Jan. 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