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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. And, for the sake of diplomacy, keeping the peace, or not wanting to appear to be snobbish or hurtful, we have simply stopped giving each other constructive criticism regarding our flaws. Ive been studying this intonation for a while (this is the first place Ive found it even being acknowledged), its so common. The Up-and-Coming Most Annoying Speech Patterns Being a voice-over talent makes me extremely sensitive to not only the sound of voices I hear on TV, radio and the internet, but also to the words that are chosen. This dessert was super easy to make! Also, add to The List the pronounciation of the word food as (something like), fee-yood, and potato and soup as, pota-teeyoo and see-yoop. ago Agree, I have shuddered more than once when she consistently uses mildly incorrect grammar. Loved your video. 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. This was. She also created and hosted two seasons of Lean & Hungry's award-winning podcast. The sht thing I noticed way before Michelle Obama, which is sad because she is otherwise very well spoken. I completely agree with the annoying no problem response from a server after saying Thank you. I also see an affectation of a stammer, emphasizing the last syllable of a word, of a sentence, the totally unnecessary use of and so, after starting with the ubiquitous So, and repetition of statements as if the listener is an imbecile. Psychologicaly though my theory is that women want to be listened to and they do it subconsciously to be heard and for people to pay attention to them. This is exactly what Im looking for the name of The inflected list is the most common/overused pattern of speech. 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. Quick, before you faint! I find it so distracting that I dont hear what theyre saying anymore, and thats not good. Would my friends laugh if I developed the chirpy voice? Aha, I see what you did there. I dont claim to speak perfect English but these are things every child learns in grade school. I also loathe when people pronounce nuclear as nucular. Lets take a selfie of you and I. Fabulous opinions everybody: a terrific discussion! 1 the misuse of I "You're on the air, not having a conversation with a buddy in a bar. Theres always something! Is it a geographical thing? Heres one that you didnt feature maybe it doesnt count but its wrong and its annoying. Hansen coaches voice . I will change the channel when people speak in this manner, and when I have to put up with an advertisement before a video starts, I will simply repeat over and over to block them out, la la la la la until it is over. 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. And, forward, in all forms unless someone is moving or driving an object ahead of them. Its feels good to know others are as annoyed as I. People confessing to something or revealing something or letting someone know about how they feel about something is described not as revealed or confessed but so and so opened up about whatever. Double negatives. how about people who fitty dollars instead of fifty? She has performed in television, film, stage, voiceovers, and commercials. Pretty much everywhere to enunciate the ts in button is not correct. The marketing profession is an enemy to communicationmuch like the buzzspeak in 1984. 4) adding definately before every verb Thanks to ALL recent commenters for reading and sharing your thoughts on this topic. Hello Baz, and thank you so much for being so detailed in your descriptions of your total annoyance with these speech trends. These are just regional inflections, not errors per se. It is irritating. What I was really searching for is the new pattern that my daughter seems..touse. Are you listening to me? YES. I watched a high school teacher being interviewed on television and every other word was one of the phrases that make me tune out as I am bound to do when I am forced to watch a powerpoint presentation. They sound exhausted or out of breath. Weird or unique ways of speaking are one way to get noticed. Perhaps Im better not to. The tone, rhythm, and inflections grate on the ear. Yes, no, blah blah blah. It may have been the one I just quoted. Or here in The UK / Ireland, Big Brother, Made in Chelsea to name but a few. People are suddenly emphasizing the wrong syllable in words that end in dent. Children these days arent even taught it anymore, and should they actually receive a hand-written note, they act as if they are translating some strange foreign sandscript language, to even try and read it. We lost thou as its use changed to refer to social subordinates long story short, we ended up with you for both the second-person singular and second-person plural pronouns. LITERALLY no one? And the horrible grammar: Her and I. I have a small business and refuse to hire anyone who speaks like anyone described in the article or these annoying ways of speaking. Viewers would be fascinated Vocal fry irritates the hell out of me! One thing journalists I spoke to said: They're real people and they'd like to sound real too. Ugh! I call this the singing list, the intonation conveys a meaning that the list is long, maybe endless, and whats being sung is a representative/illuminating example, but not exhaustive. This is only a small portion of the sissification of men that I could rant about but it is the most annoying. Fast forward to 2020 and, although I love shows about animals like the various zoo reality shows on Animal Planet, I cannot watch the one based out of Australia. Perhaps I need to pay more attention to the bungled up speech patterns that are in use. A long list of complaints I violently agree with. NPR seems to be doing a full-out Jessica Rabbit Via . And then I had to take the Range Rover in for serviiiiiiiiice, I mean, Im like sooo worn out ( vocal fry). I agree though, like the tattoo girl on the Twix commercial that spells NO REGERTS and then says Sawree in that whiny sarcastic voice. That reminds me of a form of uptalk, but also theres a thing I notice where a person will have two pitches in their speech. I heard a woman on NPR listing causes of something and at the end of each item her voice went up. Also have you noticed that many reporters and tv personalities will repeat words over and over like that that that that,,,and, and, and and to to to to which is now ta ta ta ta (examplethey were going ta ta ta be there on Friday) etc. You know This phrase is increasingly being usedat the beginning of the sentence as a lead-in. The most recent annoying speech pattern to me is the habit of adding an ah sound to the end of a word. And then those styles get copied and go viral and pretty soon you hear it everywhere. So should only be used at the beginning of a sentence when you are either asking a new question or starting a whole new topic of conversation. THANK YOU for this! My goodness! If it tickles, don't back off, you're doing it right! ", Another listener from Minnesota wrote that "millennial correspondents" who speak with vocal fry "seems to counter NPR's high standards. (And yes, she also hears a lot of feedback on her own voice.). Its not even with lists. Now that Im working remotely full-time, I have become acutely aware of speech patterns of the people I work with! Im not crazy Im being been driven there, though. It makes my skin crawl, when people say are, when it is PRONOUNCED, OUR!!! Though NPR still has work to do on the issue of its newsroom diversity, over the past few years the numbers have been creeping in the right direction. Endlessly irritating to me and I agree, it does sound affected. Especially when hearing service providers use it after customers express thanks. Using it as a string of bullet points makes the writer sound illiterate. 12 pt times new roman double spaces face to face conversations. I was thinking that I was the only hearing the incorrect use of the schwa during a recent newscast. If someone speaks in numbered bullet points, such as, Firstly_____, and second then they wish to sound more educated than they are. It seems to me it takes more effort to speak a word without its T sound in the middle than to speak the word properly! This often occurs when a person (on TV) is explaining the steps to any given process to another person: What Im going to do is, Im going to In 2nd person plural, What were doing is, were going to. This usage of So is incorrect!!! And everything is an experience this is a great millennial buzzword. You should receive an employer of the year award. Hearing Americans and Britons speak is psychological torture. Others, over exaggerated, more perfect, funner and many more. I mean, everyone has heard plenty of examples of those speech patterns that have made perfectly well-educated college grads (mostly female) sound like Kardashian wannabes. I came to this thread as I am driven mad by Nicola Walker, the terrific British actress (who I like very much) has this annoying habit of pausing momentarily in the middle of delivering her line in a script. ! whenever someone learns of something thats surprising to them. And lets not ignore the disproportionate amount of times speech pattern analysis (even here, in this comment section) is essentially just an excuse to satisfy a societal itch to hate things that are trending amongst young women. I saw it as SORE-ree. Initially I read your comment as a knock on the Canadian pronunciation of sorry. He joins us. What happened to Have a good day/afternoon/evening/morning ? One of my pet peeve: Someone who always speaks the -ah at the end of there sentence. Heres what makes me hit mute/delete on any podcast, youtube speaker, Radio, etc. I seem to see/hear it all the time nowadays, normally just after someone has clearly explained the facts around something, but the person reading/hearing it feels the need to demand the person giving out the information to Wait! so they can then ask them What?, as though what theyve just heard is complete nonsense, simply because they havent, (or so it comes across), been able to comprehend it the first time around. One of the reasons the patterns become so widespread, particularly with the current trend of vocal fry, is the feeling of belonging it gives young women. every word. 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. Person 2: So, did you ever get to visit your mother in Phoenix?, If you are just answering someone elses previous question, DO NOT begin with So. Also, using lol in a sentence is not only idiotic, and outdated, but it makes the commenter appear mentally retarded. Even if the people indulging in these patterns have an incredibly high IQ, the patterns work against them by making them: Despite all the detriments of allowingthose patterns to unconsciously creep into your own conversational lexicon, people are falling prey at rapid rates. Its come to the point that Im grateful when a guest says Youre welcome at the end. I get far more hung up on language misuse, though. STOP THAT NONSENSE! Mark, your comments are very well spoken, and I also consider language and ones command and understanding of it to be a sign of class and proper education. You and me both. But Glass said in that episode that he never hears about his. She has been a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild since 2005. Or is this merely habit? Their tone raises up at the parts of the word I typed in capitals.. Yes!! Much of what else is mentioned here Ive not heard or not noticed. Interviewer asks, Why is the current focus on companies like Exxon?, Young woman interviewee: Yeah, so Exxon is a high-profile, Mostly, young women seem to do this. ***Follow @JoshVoorhees and the rest of the . Part Two: Here Comes AI, Is the Golden Age of Voice Over Gone? You can shream ashuss g t v. The 2021 Dream Home is looking good and wanting you to win it. For example, I have to walk my doggggg, pick up the kidddds, and go grocery shoppinnnng. airlines. Ironically, the girl in the last video does vocal fry throughout (I managed less than a minute of the video). What game? Thats a very strange one. you left out one which has spread like wildfire the last few months (besides UHMMM)it is a click as I call it every time the person opens their mouth to start a sentence,kinda like chewing gum with your mouth open kind of a sucking click-I swear these things are done to get your attention for trivial things which the person want you to listen to. What fascinates me most about it is that its unconsciously infused the American English speaking world, every seems to do it, everyone also seems to get it it never leaves anyone confused. Its done a lot in the German language, too (which makes sense, if you think about it). We dont really distinguish the middle short e and middle short I in speech. In Australia we get really annoyed with well spoken presenters on TV pronouncing t as d, eg very impordant and cute kidden. Agreed, Paula. This usually entails drawn out words: Sooosomething reeeaally horrrribllllle happened todaaayyyy I broke my cat candlllllle.. (Pout face). Is there a name for this type of speaking? I also cant stand when people repeatedly mispronounce words. Anyone who wishes to sound like an idiot is well within his or her rights to do so. I now hear little girls copying their mums, speaking in vocal fry, and thats sad. Maybe its the microphones? I wondered if I was alone in my discomfort. Thanks for your comment! Vocal fry isnt going away anytime soon because television advertisers use it to show their product is hip. Hey Bob this original post was inspired from listening to NPRso you are not alone in your observations or annoyances at the kind of speech patterns readily available on our airwaves. In the Fresh Air episode about criticism of young women's voices she said,"People are busy policing young women's language, and nobody is policing older or younger men's language.". 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.) Just observant. and our Uptalk, especially, when talking to a CSR at your bank or other professional organization. Also the northeastern dis, dat, dem and does for this, that, them and those. Some of my pet peeves are as follows: It totally baffles me. I abhor this glottal stop. You guys seems to be winning in the USA, so if it bothers you, Im afraid youre out of luck. I have to bite my tongue and let off steam when I hear Australians speak. More on that idea here. So, I woke uuuuup. The one Ive noticed the most lately is the one mentioned by Mary N. And of course the extremely annoying vocal fry. Have I become a crotchety old fart or is Idiocracy truly upon us? If I had my way all of the above media types would be banned outright at home, in school and in the workplace, as all of it makes me want to puke. Also on the rise Yah, Yah to express approval, agreement, excitement. Beyond annoying. I have heard right? at the end of sentences used frequently. It seems to be many white females that Im noticing using this trend. Good English dictates brevity as a virtue; much, is redundant here. So many people cannot do it. Once you learn a second language its hard to speak it incorrectly. My husband and I both react as though were hearing nails on a chalkboard when people speak as though theyre trying to manipulate us. And when people speak without a script they often use filler words or make minor grammatical mistakes. So, like, gag me with a spoon, you know? 3) Ordering at a restaurant or the like, saying Ill DO the instead of lll order the or Ill have the. The sad thing about podcasters is that they have not taken any diction or public speaking classes. Yeah, no. Ive NO idea where it came from or why. I can focus and absorb what they are saying so much more easily. This had to have started with someonemaybe a Kardashian? No statement can ever, ever stand on its own without an intensifier. Because anybody who over pronounces their ts and ss sounds annoying to me. There are many more I could come up with, but tedious at the moment. Not sure. Im reading this because I am driven to distraction now that my husband has started constantly dropping the g from words ending in ing. It really annoys me when people are speaking in clear English and then when its time foe them to refer to a foreign culture such as Latinos they cant just say Latinos like we do in English but they have to HEAVILY saturate their pronunciation so they can prove that they are almost (or actually) bilingual. She found that people over 40 heard the utterance without any creak as more authoritative, while people under 40 found both clips authoritative. I find it close to impossible to think that these sounds are solely mimicry. That happened to Mike Cooper, a voice-over artist who recently stumbled upon his voice being used without his knowledge for AI. The latter pronunciations of each drive me nuts. I mean Seriously? Yes indeed, these annoying trends are now common to stupid people the world over believe me, mainly most likely due to easier access to media such as world news media, social media, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, self obsessed attention seeking wannabe famous so called influencers, etc. Finally, the other habit that seems to be spreading is the use of the schwamostly women but not exclusivelyperhaps the thought is that it makes them seem more cultured. I don't think the latter is our goal.". I do not want to hear anyone speaking with mosquito tones. Consider Bertie Wooster in the Wodehouse Jeeves stories. Or is it gender? When used, it sounds more like its a filler until the person can come up with the words he/she wants to say. I mean, they really drew it out. THAT new vaccine, THAT plane crash, THAT police shooting its really getting annoying. Lets not forget the increasingly common tyoo in lieu of two, to, or too. Ive noticed the upward shift in tone can be as much as an octave. Shes in her mid-50s and old enough to know better. Thats what it sounded like to me in your video. I have worked as a journalist for over 25 years, and I do not work in television for a reason. Hansen strives to make quality performance accessible to everyone, whether as a performer, creator, strategic leader, or coach. The biggest for me, though, is the epidemic vocal fry combined with a high-pitched voice, or sexy baby speak, among the majority of women, and many men now (Ira Glass, Im looking at you). Did college professors never say.hey, thats annoying and unprofessional? Please. The use of You know what? just before every seemingly unrevealing statement is huge in Australian parlance, um well at least in Melbourne. They are not harmonious. My husband watches CNBC a lot (financial channel) and even listening to various serious commentators and guests you can hear many examples of these patterns. as f*ck immediately comes to mind, stupid-sounding phrases like SO MUCH YES! I am glad you are pointing them as incorrect and idiotic. I work for a large tech company in the SF Bay Area and I can attest that uptalk, unfortunately, is more pervasive than ever. Speaking to Terry Gross on Fresh Air, linguist Penny Eckert described a preliminary study she conducted that asked participants to listen to two clips one with creak and one without. No problem suggests that I might have been a problem. Filet Mignon: Min-yoh, not min-yawn. She pointed out that Ira Glass, the host of This American Life who has an iconic radio voice, uses a lot of vocal fry. Sauvignon Sauv in- yoh (silent n) not Sauv in- yawn. It's BS. What about using the words at all, at the end of a sentence. Please shut up!!! But, over the past few years students have become increasingly reproachful as if I am purposefully attacking their generation. It seems to me that the average persons way of communicating has become more casual in professional situations because it has become taboo to correct others in academic settings. For example as heard by a newscaster recently: I wonder if they realize they are doing this? Someone must start these silly fads. It seems to me that in the course of the past couple of years stuDENT has become the preferred usage. 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. The overuse of superlative adjectives. One the first of second episodes of Star Trek Discovery, I think thats the name, the captain says, thish traitor. Their whole speach pattern changes. Seems to be a constant request for recognitionas if we somehow cant stop to ask if we dont understand something. He started tracking the pervasive use of these five patterns of speaking that are appearing in virtually every interview he listens to lately, including on cable news and business channels. He wrote to us about his experience hearing reporters who did not sound like he does. Its like they are trying to sound like babies so they are less threatening. attack becomes attawwk; radio becomes rawwdio. However, Ive noticed a horrible trend, especially on Parcast, to have females doing commercials who sound like babies. It feels like they want attention, or something else, from us and are using what they think are caressing tones. Agree! On a personal note, being, English , that is to say, we invented English, therefore, regardless of colour, creed, religion. Its bazaar. It makes these women sound like spoiled little girls who are accustomed to getting things their own way, and you better expect a tantrum if they dont get what they want. It is not just annoying, it sounds absolutely ridiculous. I am listening to a webinar class right now and the instructor keeps using apparently to start sentences. No one speaks like that in conversation and I find it both distracting and irritating. A study in 2014 found that although vocal fry, whether used by men or . A speech pattern where every word is delivered with careful measure and staccato pauses, as if every thought being expressed is incredibly complex? Like many here, I listen to a good deal of NPR-ish broadcasts and podcasts. The difference in their abilities to communicate well, resolve conflicts, and reach desired goals with less confusion is notable. Hansen began acting at age 5, and was a cast member of a TV series on resisting peer pressure at 12. Were they all forced to attend the same course and drilled in this method before earning their hosting gigs? Im not an imbecile who is unable to follow a connected train if thought! You can even mix them all together in infinite combinations: Right, so you know the best way to find out answers is to Google it, right? Stop adding, subtracting, and manipulating language to influence or control the listener. I first noticed it when Joanna Gains talked and now I notice it everywhere. I think it was around this time that the issue of vocal fry came to the foreground on NPR. Do you see the bu**un? Its the teacher and college professors that are spreading this annoying trend. She has performed guest star roles on NBC's Parks & Recreation and HBO's Veep, working with Amy Poehler and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, respectively. The education system. Either Feb-roo-ary or Feb-yoo-ary is acceptable. Like things like like because its just, like, beyond ubiquitous and you already know about it. Thank you for helping me put a name to this! infomercial voice overs and direct response marketing, Voice Over Trends 2023: Less Looking, More Listening, Is the Golden Age of Voice Over Gone? What I notice is the use of Well, before almost every response by news panelists. I called it creaking. 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. Such as certain ,they no longer pronounce the t. Just as NPR's reporting can expose listeners to new ideas, listening to national radio is an opportunity to hear voices from many backgrounds. Does anyone super agree? Its good to see I am not. Very. Everyone drops the T here. Argh!!! This post has garnered SO many comments like yours, so hopefully, you will feel vindicated that you arent the only one hearing and being frustrated by these things. Sam Sanders, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, records a segment at NPR West on September 24, 2018. I DO say February. I just wanna know whats the reason behind it so i can try to stop being annoyed hahaha. So in the workplace and over the airways, especially on leftist networks the use of ENCOURAGE, SUGGEST and URGE etc etc etc. But among friends all the time. Person 2: So South African farmers are facing difficult times nowadays Does anyone say FebRuary without sounding ridiculous? YESSSS!,,,,,, the staccato speech is driving me away from tv. Just because theres a stringor SHTRingof letters composed of an s, t and a nearby r, doesnt mean that English suddenly and surreptitiously morph into German pronunciation. I simply changed the channel on my tv. "When they sit down and open the mic to tell the story, they aren't just hanging on for the ride and hoping that it ends soon. I think it is annoying when people answer a question with, Yes, no It seems trendy with Britsh speakers. Why should we voice the t in often? Whatever you think of, you're not alone: Many listeners have an idea of what an NPR voice should sound like. Or, when listening to a reporter or expert contributor on radio or television. Soft, gentle words rising to hard, forceful preaching, followed by applause and cheering! But what to do with them then? Jessica Hansen is the voice of NPR's funding credits, and serves as an in-house voice coach for NPR. Given NPR's millions of listeners, pleasing each one all the time would be an impossible goal. For me, its the high-pitched, pinched, nasal voice that sounds so flat and grating from women on TV. Manhattan is apparently now Manhadden. That authenticity is key to NPR's original mission to "celebrate the human experience as infinitely varied." Why isnt anyone saying to anymore? ! Fry here and there. But I remain relentless I call it out every time. The best example is stuDENT. 4) Replacing the good old annoying no problem with the nearly arrogant no worries. The bulk of revenues coming from programming fees, grants from foundations or business entities, contributions and sponsor-ships. If you pronounce the T (soft or hard) in button, youll get some strange glances, because literally no one here pronounces it that way. I hear it all the time paint-inG almost sounding like guh at the end of the syllable. Its one of my many pet peeves in newscaster-speak, and I hear this one all the time especially from Rachel Martin on NPR. Ugh! By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Some time around the late 90s, early 2000s, it was taken off the graded subjects. Some of it likely occurs between people very familiar with each other. Or you might hear the hushed monotone parodied in Saturday Night Live's iconic "Schweddy Balls" sketch. That said, Boston's local morning guy, Bob Oakes, has a legendarily annoying voice. It sounds like theyre saying, Think yeeough. in a rude, snobby, sneer down the nose at you manner. Its become hugelycommon, even among expert speakers during formal interviews (just listen to NPR while various experts are interviewed). I want to shout at them all and saystop being sheep all of you, keep your individuality, its much more interesting, and real. And I say this from a professional point of view. Its a strange phenomenon in my mind, but of course trends come and go. Plus, at the end of the day. Thank you is the correct response. Other reporters hone their delivery as well. I hope that is not the case. As in: Reporter: Do you favor wearing masks in public to help slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2? https://t.co/7p2fxbZTAN. I can sense the pits of hell opening within my spirit and anger arising like smoke of an erupting volcano, ahhhhh! I had to fight my own brain!". 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