I have noticed a new one in speech and texts with 30 yr and younger females 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. Its done a lot in the German language, too (which makes sense, if you think about it). Someone has to take responsibility for the slaughter of the Queens English. Reporters strive to sound clear and concise on air. Theres a name for it, but I cant remember what its called. "They can feel more comfortable, confident and relaxed, because they feel like they have command of this instrument and their performance," said Hansen. I first noticed vocal fry around 2007 when two young female supervisors of mine would literally end each sentence with 4 to 5 seconds of vocal fry. I was actually googling, trying to find if this type of (annoying!) Awesome and absolutely. I also cant stand when people repeatedly mispronounce words. This kind of speech pattern is common amongst younger television announcers/commentators. Agreed, Paula. 2) I cant stand the making every sentence sound like a question- They have this childish high pitched baby voice and its like stabbing my ears with bamboo skewers. This is certainly not limited to lower social groups; its becoming endemic in very educated middle class professionals. I have heard meara and arrow instead of error. None of these up-and-coming phrases ever appear in scripts that I read for actual voice-over jobs or auditions. It seems that amazing has become the new awesome. 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. Theres another pronunciation of words that drive me to distractionor in this case I should say diSHtraction. 4) Replacing the good old annoying no problem with the nearly arrogant no worries. And I say this from a professional point of view. This had to have started with someonemaybe a Kardashian? Dont know if this is quite in the same league, but watching YouTube videos, there is a channel called Triggernometry I like that does interesting interviews/chats on sometimes contentious topics. If you cant say it right how can you spell it correctly. My husband listens to a lot of podcasts, particularly enjoying them while out driving or working in the yard. What I notice is the use of Well, before almost every response by news panelists. Like, what about the kids, like mostly girls, that like say the word like, like every other word. No statement can ever, ever stand on its own without an intensifier. Even interviews with people youd think would be trained to avoid patterns like these are using them. Every sentence is spoken as a question, whether it is or not. )and the latest affliction.WaitWHAT ??. Reporters get these complaints directly, too. A few other exercises for keeping voice forward are: Humming. Not only I improperly placed but me used at the start of a phrase. Youre not crotchety. It infuriates me, especially if NPR is on before my coffee. I particularly despise yeah yeah yeah and starting sentences with So. Thank you for addressing the awful speech patterns in our society. After she pointed this out to me, I hear an appalling number of people that half hiss/lisp when they speak on reputable news programs. The biggest one that I hear it in is when celebrities say singer. Debbie also provides phone-related voice over services including phone prompts, messages-on-hold and outbound phone marketing for companies in the United States and Canada. Great use of the word literally there, Amber. This sounds immature (like a 5 year old), lazy and uneducated. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts on this subject. A major part of the Biden plan is to sort of prioritize pandemic assistance. Sucking on the teeth and smackingThis speaker does this , also. I have asked you not to do that! I say something, along the lines of, Thats one way to ensure I dont talk; you dont have to listen to me. Then, I walk away seething, and loathing him more and more. Do TV news announcers take classes in speaking this way? Auto-formatting removed the numerous spaces between the words in my last sentence, rendering the example less than illustrative. The one thats driving me crazy is this extra schwa added to the ends of words. I am Jack and this is my dog Thats the sky, thats the sea, and that? Pointing this out to friends, Im usually answered by yeah, I noticed, or good old-fashioned shrugs. The one I cant stand is S-backing where they say shhtreet, shhhtrike, dishhhtraction. In fact, theres a show on HBO where EVERY lady character has a speech impediment. 2) Adding Sh sound to words starting with ST, as mentioned in earlier comment. 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. In that regard, there is clearly several areas where the linguistic phrases are a product of generation, e.g., texting shortcuts used in other contexts, borrowing from pop culture. We all have a few annoying speech/writing habits.). When I meet a person under the age of 40 who does not speak in this manner, I am surprised and delighted, and will go out of my way to let them know how much I appreciate their ability to communicate properly. Paige, You can shream ashuss g t v. The 2021 Dream Home is looking good and wanting you to win it. They arent aware of it so I think that means there are no elocution lessons. All are irritating and to me, they pigeon-hole the speaker and come across as less intelligent and less confident than they realize or intend. James, Questions. I am a bit more forgiving if English isnt your first language but otherwise its incredibly annoying. Vocal fry is the most annoying thing on the planet to me. The one that really gets to me, (in addition to all the ones already mentioned), is the starting of a sentence with Wait, what? Excellent analysis!!! What brought me here was the irritating way young females pronounce thank you. Vocal fry irritates the hell out of me! And, like a highly contagious virus, it is possible that by simply reading this post, you too will become afflicted! The ending gah sound, as in reading-gah drives me nuts. This morning in class? It feels like they want attention, or something else, from us and are using what they think are caressing tones. context or discernible link to the discussion. I didnt know there was a word for that! So, it is not just me that notices this. thank you again for such a thoughtful response. speech pattern had a name, because someone in my house started doing it and they are driving me crazy! Ah. Exclusive to Americans are having to include real quick in every sentence and right here or right there But MOST annoying now is one that almost every single woman seems to do now And yes it is women strangely enough. I first noticed this 10 years ago watching Dora the Explorer with my Daughter. An awful conversational bridge. She currently sings with Summer Parfait, a jazz band including fellow NPR employees Chris Joyce and James Willetts. Thank you so much, Debbie and Baz! Several years ago, feminist author Naomi Wolf suggested vocal fry among young women was causing them to "disown their own power.". One will usually do the trick! 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. The ingredients were super fresh and it tasted super amazing!, The car we bought drives super fast! Have a good one! If you pronounce the T (soft or hard) in button, youll get some strange glances, because literally no one here pronounces it that way. Heres what makes me hit mute/delete on any podcast, youtube speaker, Radio, etc. Not sure if it has anything to do with trying to be overly sensitive or PC or whatever about things and needing to couch language. So I do speak to them about that, how important it is to at least be able to READ it, but it really goes nowhere from there. !, WAIT-aahh. Isnt it a long-standing fact, that all beings respond to melodious speech far more positively than, for example, a shriek. OH YES! I have worked as a journalist for over 25 years, and I do not work in television for a reason. Do you see the bu**un? I thought I was the only person annoyed by these patterns. Such as certain ,they no longer pronounce the t. Some of the family members have a better capacity to use words, language & phraseology than others that still use upspeak, vocalfry, text slang & whining. Videos, I get by with closed-caption options, otherwise just NO. We occasionally hear from listeners who critique what they perceive as the homogeneity of on-air voices. Agree! It is not good representation of the general population; especially the show where it is only women who have the speech impediments. And when people speak without a script they often use filler words or make minor grammatical mistakes. Gosh ny chief hates include the words we are expected to use in public so we do not appear too assertive or pushy. thats Mineah! The sound of 2020 America is a chirpy vocal fry. They are not harmonious. 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. Playin, doin, shopping, talkin, and just today consultin. When I hear someone at a store or restaurant say something else instead of Have a good one! I thank them for not being like the rest of the robots. I am forever hearing me and my friends instead of my friends and I. No. Its just a dialect difference. I am dropping the mike now. For me, its the high-pitched, pinched, nasal voice that sounds so flat and grating from women on TV. Quick, before you faint! I find it so distracting that I dont hear what theyre saying anymore, and thats not good. Correspondent Carrie Johnson came to NPR in 2010, after a long career in print. To me, thats like criticising someone who stutters, besides being a tool to stonewall me. Loved your video. I long to hear a host say Youre welcome in response. The kind of/sort of pattern I first noticed about 8-10 years ago and it was my old pet peeve; maybe Ive grown used to it by now. Thank goodness I stopped listening to American mainstream news with all their Aussie employees. Since I watch a lot of network tv, I hear this and other abominations on commercials, especially. "People forget that there's a person on the other end of the email," Duffin said. I dont know, but it happens more often than youd think. You sound as ignorant as the people youre skewering. Its rampant. Its a virus spreading. You might hear the rich baritone of Bob Edwards. Hayes, you say right?, but how do I know whether I agree with you or not until you actually make the statement?. After living abroad for over a decade, I noticed in the mid-1990s that, in the workplace, every female in a supervisory position seemed compelled to preface nearly every declarative sentence with, At this time. It was quite ridiculous to hear something like, At this tiiiime, we do not have a vacancy, but wed like to talk to you, so At this tiiime, can you tell me if you could come in at 10:00 on Thursday? It irritates me to see UR instead of you are or switched RU ,are you? Aha, I see what you did there. 10 years later, it has infected our speech everywhere in North America. Maybe its the microphones? Thankfully, people have stopped using in terms of before every statement! NPR has always kept American dialects and accents out of their reporting, but Vally-Girl seems to be OK. Formerly worst voice was Diane Rehm. Jackie Fortir is a healthcare reporter for StateImpact Oklahoma and part of the NPR-Kaiser Health News partnership. Yes, I have an accent, but I use proper English as my model to imitate. I was thinking that I was the only hearing the incorrect use of the schwa during a recent newscast. 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. Makes me understand why people sometimes get slapped! Women who speak this way remind me of the ghosts in the movie, The Grudge.. Because anybody who over pronounces their ts and ss sounds annoying to me. Quickly. 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. The most recent annoying speech pattern to me is the habit of adding an ah sound to the end of a word. she didn't sound certain saying her own name, helps reporters hone their voices for air. Vocal fry. She found that people over 40 heard the utterance without any creak as more authoritative, while people under 40 found both clips authoritative. Even in filipino words like palapag theyll say palapag-gah'the gah sounds like when you pronounce the letter G. They do this do the last letter of the last word of the their sentence. Merry fucking xmas. Its bazaar. But perhaps it is also a societal takeover of inferior standards that will continue to decline. Sportscasters use it, friends use it in convos, but uh, hey, whats wrong with that? How about pandimik (apparently meaning pandemic,) mimber (apparently meaning member,) and oh god, space (apparently derived from safe space). or common mispronunciation: Realtor, not Real a tor. I do think it bothers some more than others, and once you key in on ityou hear it all the time, and it becomes more like nails on a chalkboard. NPR must be making a conscious decision to allow all of this. This American Life even did a segment on the negative messages their women reporters receive about vocal fry. Using it as a string of bullet points makes the writer sound illiterate. During her 10-year tenure as Artistic Director, Lean & Hungry's shows were heard on public radio stations in 8 states and the District of Columbia, with an estimated audience of 42,000 listeners for each show. 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. 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.) ^ That, I hear all the time (Southern California). 3 length vs. lenth, H (long a and ch) vs. (long a and shuss), streaming vs. shreaming. Yes, I found this site while searching for Stephen Dubner annoying speech pattern. These are just regional inflections, not errors per se. The best example is stuDENT. One thing journalists I spoke to said: They're real people and they'd like to sound real too. Duffin, of Planet Money, said that when she's recording she tries to sound like "a more listenable, polished version" of herself. Stripping is not music. Its been shortened from I know, right? (Aka, IKR?) Why bother with all the words when you can trim it down to one. Ummm also people who ummm say ummmm uncontrollably as well as the yeah, no phrase that is everywhere. Indeed, there's an ongoing conversation within public radio about the extent to which the industry asks some journalists to change their voices to conform to the (mostly white) voices that came before them. 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.. My vote for most annoying speech affectation goes to the word to. Real News Host; Also, many of our viewers are likely wondering what Ive been trying to figure out the speech pattern of an acquaintance its causing me irritation and anxiety. The pervasive use of hypophora, mostly in spoken media, is more than annoying to me! Or adding the wrong vowels to words for instance making the word food sound more like fewd. Or I mean, Im not lyin when I say Its usually when someone is trying to express exasperation or frustration-uh. Right!? Thanks for commenting Doyle, thats a new one I havent noticed yet. And singing involves a Melody AND talent. Even politics reporter Detrow, who doesn't hear from listeners about his voice, said he evaluates his own interviews. Its not just insincere, its rude, as if theyre annoyed at having to say it. So So, youll also find this one at the beginning of a sentence, namely as a way to manage the conversation and sound fairly authoritative (or condescending). Glen Washington (Snap Judgment) is so smooth, I also like Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji (Code Switch). its so, like, annoying, right? That means some listeners have to adjust to new sounds. Wait, what is the worst, because it pretends to be clever and original, and is the polar opposite of both. Its refreshing to hear someone else with similar tendencies, calling out the younger generation on so many of these types of habits, which, in effect, butcher the language and the beauty of its intended delivery. Should school lectures take place on the moon, or just remotely via satellite? Also, the millennial kid who is fd in the head trying to sound so sophisticated, like he is an expert at everything and demeaning to everyone. 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? Any insight into where the hard G at the end of -ing is coming from? -aahh to extend words. Everything is now amazing. No, sorry. So, like, gag me with a spoon, you know? 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. That authenticity is key to NPR's original mission to "celebrate the human experience as infinitely varied." or I I I I I I dragged out and finished with uh.. 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 collection would be much funnier if the written intro didnt include a sentence beginning I mean She pointed out that Ira Glass, the host of This American Life who has an iconic radio voice, uses a lot of vocal fry. Old annoying no problem with the nearly arrogant no worries becoming endemic in very educated class. 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