This is certainly not limited to lower social groups; its becoming endemic in very educated middle class professionals. The tone, rhythm, and inflections grate on the ear. Any insight into where the hard G at the end of -ing is coming from? Why, just why? It really does grate on the nerves. Quick, before you faint! I find it so distracting that I dont hear what theyre saying anymore, and thats not good. You should receive an employer of the year award. Im so glad I stumbled upon this story which consolidates all the worst habits of TV news people as well as the thread of reader responses. 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. I agree. Pronouncing str like shtr as in shtrong shtrange. And Why It's. So Annoying Audio Funny Language More: 'Reply All' is a podcast which does not do this 7 years ago As the creator of this clips puts it: "All my favorite US podcasts are being ruined by this universally adopted affectation. I mean, I dont know if Ive ever experienced anything like it grammatically in my entire 43 years, on this planet anyway. Sad, but true. Seriously, though, get that ignorant, superficial, pseudointellectual sentence-padding out of here. Theres no room for any reply and honestly, I no longer care. To me, it sounds like theyve actually forgotten to end the word and let that final syllable continue to sound out for an extended period. But instead it sounds like I went to the STOre, then the gas STAtion, and then got something to EAT.. p.s. While listeners sometimes write to us specifically about a particular voice they don't like, a survey of the emails we receive reveals a pattern. They're actually choosing their path and doing the steering.". Youve covered it all, including the Yes, no stupidity. For example, instead of saying No they say NoUH. Thank you Paige for mentioning the accent on the wrong syllable trend. Its an epidemic among millennial actors, hosts, and cable news panelists/contributors. First, they sound like they are pedaling up a hill. You are smarter than I am. Today IS the first day of Spring She is best known for her role in the NPR Morning Edition and All Things Considered. how about people who fitty dollars instead of fifty? This had to have started with someonemaybe a Kardashian? Privacy Policy. I hear this a lot in conversation these days too. Sam Sanders, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, records a segment at NPR West on September 24, 2018. Several years ago, feminist author Naomi Wolf suggested vocal fry among young women was causing them to "disown their own power.". I notice my three year old great-grandson now says I really miss you guys when he used to just say I miss you., Some other annoying trends are 1) super, totally and uber for very Its good to know my husband and I arent the only ones who feel this way about how people are speaking lately. Ive had to stop watching MSNBC, because Rachel Maddow lards her hour with the use of right. Worse is Chris Hayes, who doesnt even use right properly! Can you point to the bu**un? My goodness, there are annoying speech patterns in every language, and by sex. Do they know how ridiculous they appear???? She helps people who find they sound monotone, sing-songy or low-energy. This is why I refuse to hire young people! For example i had a really busy day today.. It starts at home and moves to the classroom. I just wanna know whats the reason behind it so i can try to stop being annoyed hahaha. Is it hormones in food? The voice goes up and slows down, theeeeeeeen, then they list detail 1, and detail two (pause) and detail three. Maybe its our television sets audio, but I wonder why womens vowels are so loud on news programs. If reporters find that their voices are "tired," reducing vocal fry might be one way to help. Sounds unnatural. Excellent analysis!!! Agree! I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. 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. ", In the ensuing #PubRadioVoice conversation, now-host of Weekend Edition Sunday Lulu Garcia-Navarro tweeted about a similar experience. Ah. . Lisa P. hit the nail on the head. Its far from the only silent letter in spoken English. The t sound is there; the enunciation is just very soft, almost swallowed, because the word is split into syllables in a different place than whats proper. While I agree that its a lazy way of speaking, its probably more a regional speech pattern than anything else. airlines. Now its bad enough that nine times out of ten, the politician decides to answer some other question that (s)he deems more appealing. whether your repeated use of the term space is conscious, or simply Bull***t. Its just people being influenced by media influencers (Kardashians) and then copying each other to fit in. This was. Filet Mignon: Min-yoh, not min-yawn. Ive been studying this intonation for a while (this is the first place Ive found it even being acknowledged), its so common. Aha, I see what you did there. An overheard conversation: The other day I was walkiiiiiing, and, like, this dude flicked a cigarette butt on the graaa-ound, and I said, hey! The one voice that NPR does have on hand that presents a good marriage of youthful freshness and traditional diction while remaining pleasing and understandable is David Greene, currently on Morning Edition. I agree though, like the tattoo girl on the Twix commercial that spells NO REGERTS and then says Sawree in that whiny sarcastic voice. But many English speakers dont really consider you as plural, because its indistinguishable from the singular, and so they perceive a gap in our pronoun system, which has been filled with a number of informal second-person plural pronouns: yall, you guys, yous guys, you-all, you lot (UK), etc. Also, old hardly known by an average individual, words, which are being now widely used. After Sanders and his panelists discussed a mysterious case of American diplomats in Cuba suffering from a possibly psychosomatic illness, listeners wrote that his tone had been too light-hearted for a serious subject. Its not just insincere, its rude, as if theyre annoyed at having to say it. How can there or here not be ON the ground, if it is, ON the ground. Stop talking like that!. Its not even with lists. Thankfully, people have stopped using in terms of before every statement! Sounding clear and natural on air takes time and practice. I love to hear all types of accents, and regional dialects, as long as theyre intelligible. And the second? Instead of just saying the first is Y, the second one is Z. I suppose the purpose is to draw suspense or to be clever, but it is so unnecessary and stupidly interrupts the flow of a list of reasons. Also, ahhhhh, ahhhhhhh when they see a puppy or baby or receive a gift, etc. Along with that and many other things mentioned here ive also noticed use of the wrong vowel sounds. If I were grading you, your report would get, at best, a C-," the listener from Missouri concluded. If I could type in this format, it would look something like this. I abhor this glottal stop. A big offender is Marie Harf (former FOX News Dem commentator and former Obama State Department Spokeswoman). I was actually googling, trying to find if this type of (annoying!) Drop the phrases now and you can think of it as an easy,inexpensive way to outshine 85 percent of your competitors in that next job interview. is You get the idea. As a result, my tolerance for vocal tics is definitely lower than it used to be. I am Jack and this is my dog Thats the sky, thats the sea, and that? Hey, buddy if you dont stop telling me to look, Ill just have to decline to listen. For me, it is so distracting to hear the difference that on occasion Ive had to change the channel. Remember this rant next time you hear Were all in this together blah blah blah., By the way Im not real keen on the use of repurpose or deconstruct.. I hope youll be disturbed too. One study found that young women with vocal fry were perceived as less competent and trustworthy. It seems to be the new normal. Im not trying to be critical or mean, but it used to be if you had a speech impediment, you went to speech therapy and got rid of it before you went on public media. One of my pet peeve: Someone who always speaks the -ah at the end of there sentence. One from Texas wrote: "Not all Americans sound like White American politicians and I wish that could be reflected on your airwaves.". This sounds immature (like a 5 year old), lazy and uneducated. I am so happy that I found this website! Meowing. Not up-talk exactly, as in ending every sentence as if it were a question, but more when people are listing things that are maybe a little tedious. Its kind of like way better than going to the library. He would say, no I dont know in reply to our you know. I just love what you wrote. I hear it a lot among sports commentators and analyzers on tv and radio. Now I can add that to my list. !, WAIT-aahh. They rise the inflection of the words at the end of every sentence. https://t.co/7p2fxbZTAN. Yeah, naa, yeah is, similar to the Yeah, nowait, what?. Super annoying! For example, talking.with.periods.between.words! I am forever hearing me and my friends instead of my friends and I. I also loathe when people pronounce nuclear as nucular. . Person 2: So South African farmers are facing difficult times nowadays and our e.g. 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. OMG! 5. In I Have Some Questions for You, Makkai has carefully crafted a novel that inhabits a strange interstitial space between a whodunit, a crime novel with a few elements plucked from found footage . speech pattern had a name, because someone in my house started doing it and they are driving me crazy! 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. Hansen coaches voice . 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. I mean, how did people even get through the day before the internet was invented! Really? Vocal fry isnt going away anytime soon because television advertisers use it to show their product is hip. I wonder if its the education system, or perhaps social media or television. 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. One the first of second episodes of Star Trek Discovery, I think thats the name, the captain says, thish traitor. ", One listener did just that. The other tying vote is dropping the t, as stated above or over pronouncing the t to make up for the cur-an, moun-an folk. 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. is my dog No! "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. Amen!!! Thats litteriiiiing, and he just kept walkiiiiing That isnt exactly it, but its similar. So, it is not just me that notices this. Monkey hear, Monkey say! Some time around the late 90s, early 2000s, it was taken off the graded subjects. i agree, it drives me insane , they sound like 4 year olds. Why not just be brave and make a direct statement without the sort of timidity? In another, speakers with vocal fry received more votes in a hypothetical election. NPR's 50 Great Voices Entertainment: Music Voices. Ive noticed the inflection is often followed by movement, such as a slight head tilt, nod, hands, or shift of the eyes, presumably as an emphasis. Many people confuse further and farther or say me and you instead of you and I. You know what I mean? I think, that new forms of expression are good because language is alive and new inventions created new vocabulary as well. Thank you, Debbie! I really enjoy everyones comments and insights! Also, Im not fond of meme/social media culture creeping into everyday conversation either. 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. I have heard meara and arrow instead of error. Lets not forget the increasingly common tyoo in lieu of two, to, or too. I cant stand amazing. Ugh! not pronounce the actual vowel, but rather make it the aaaaah sound. (Said in a condescending nerd voice: So. Hayes, you say right?, but how do I know whether I agree with you or not until you actually make the statement?. More on that idea here. Some words are not meant to have all the letters pronounced. Or, should I say, I have tried to adjust? It is not possible. As leading lady in Synetic Family Theatre's "The Fisherman and the Golden Fish," she and the cast earned the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Production of Theatre for Young Audiences. Also, another annoying speech pattern is this: Costant micro-pauses after each couple of words, like if theres a question being asked or theres always some doubt. Double negatives. It sounds like a popular catch phrase sports people use to show they are a sport person who know what they are talking about. If he catches that he's saying "you know" a lot, he'll try to cut down on using it. I, too, pronounce both r s in February. 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