Ive forgone many a great podcast topic due to vocal fry or overuse of right. I must be getting old, I sound like my parents. Drives me nuts! airlines. If you really sit down and read every word its a fascinating phenomenon. The letters arent required to be immediately next to each other, as in hiSHtoRy, either. I find that more often there is not an understanding of why this might be appropriate, especially by my younger students & family members. Thanks for your comment! It goes this way. 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.. Its feels good to know others are as annoyed as I. Does anyone super agree? The one I cant stand is S-backing where they say shhtreet, shhhtrike, dishhhtraction. Some of it likely occurs between people very familiar with each other. Sh to begin start and such, is New York City and environs, similar to yuge. 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! -aahh to extend words. You paying attention? One of her favorites is Shtrategy. Speaking as an African American woman, if being more inclusive is the aim it fails. I hear these daily with the younger crowd at work, and it has become an epidemic, catching on with even older folks. 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. I had to fight my own brain! (ex. I put my own example of me saying it in this Youtube link: Sort of and right came right out of Britain. They sound exhausted or out of breath. They are not harmonious. 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! Was the Mike Lindell one, Thats why I curated MyPillow? "It has expanded my own understanding of the world and the people you have brought on board are excellent," he wrote. When he was starting out, he found editors "strip[ping] away [his] character" by removing vernacular and colloquialisms that felt unique to him. 3 length vs. lenth, H (long a and ch) vs. (long a and shuss), streaming vs. shreaming. 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. Another one that I have not seen anyone else mention is does that make sense after every sentence. Another one that I see increasingly in many of those under 40, is known as g-dropping. Im old, so I can state authoritatively that most on this list of annoying speech habits have been around for a long time, in fact as long as I can remember. I want to shout at them Inhale! watch a MOvie, read a BOok, eat a COOkie, Ooops! This post & comments are fun because though annoying is a subjective quality, some of these patterns & phrasing are widely undesirable. I had never noticed the yeah yeah yeah but within ten minutes I heard it on tv. I refuse point blank to allow anyone to communicate with me other than within the acceptable parameters of good spoken and written English i.e. I mean, they really drew it out. And who started everything being super??? I agree with many of the annoying speech discussed here. It seems a convemient time period for my schedule at this tiiime, Up talk is especially annoying when the speaker is listing things, as in those pillow commercials:, I sleep better? I think it is annoying when people answer a question with, Yes, no It seems trendy with Britsh speakers. FIGURATIVELY no one? What I was really searching for is the new pattern that my daughter seems..touse. She dragged out the word and pitched it higher. Back in the day you would be fired for delivering news that way. whether your repeated use of the term space is conscious, or simply Thank you, Debbie! Its mostly young females, but some young dudes do it as well. Am I alone in this? No one speaks like that in conversation and I find it both distracting and irritating. It seems to be the new normal. But as the quotes above show, some listeners do notice and they let the reporters know, too. Every sentence is spoken as a question, whether it is or not. 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. Part Two: Here Comes AI, Is the Golden Age of Voice Over Gone? The Kardashions, though not typical, offer a great example of many of these trending patterns. If I were paying someone to speak on TV I would insist that they use the correct pronunciations. Just on the cursive I used to teach my 5th and 6th graders cursive writing for at least 30 minutes a day. For example youre not just happy to be here today youre SUPER happy. Its super annoying. Corollary: being excited about even the most routine, long-anticipated events, such as the press release I saw last week about a new software upgrade that the developer was super excited to announce. That was actually in the written press release. I can focus and absorb what they are saying so much more easily. "I think of Ira Glass as the king of vocal fry," she said. Stripping is not music. Loved your video. Please. Cookie Notice Often theyll be a so tacked on to the start. I first heard this on a Dove commercial. 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. Agree! 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. What I notice is the use of Well, before almost every response by news panelists. The kids immediately say, I cant read cursive. much more easily. They must be changed Out. Quickly. And look, weyak, yak, yak.. My personal least favorite is Bill Littlefield (Only a Game) for some reason I can't explain. Im not sure if our primary education system is to blame for not putting enough emphasis on the spoken (or written) word for our younger generations, or whether it is more of a socialization and modeling of behavior that is rampant. Its just a dialect difference. The 10th Ammendment says differently. Nice to find Im not the only person driven to distraction by these annoying speech habits. All of this is annoying- up talk, vocal fry, So. I guess it works when communication is between persons with a combined vocabulary of less than 100 words, but for everyone else its extremely annoying. !, WAIT-aahh. Then I went to the gyyyyyym. The pervasive use of hypophora, mostly in spoken media, is more than annoying to me! I dont mind hearing AAVE when its between friends but professional usage irks. No more changing anything. I hope that is not the case. For example, a word with almost any vowel (most commonly an a) is pronounced, instead of with the actual long or short vowel sound for that letter, with a somewhat nasal awww ie the schwa. Im glad to discover I am not alone. Bull***t. Its just people being influenced by media influencers (Kardashians) and then copying each other to fit in. Who started this Have a good one! trend anyway? Heres one that you didnt feature maybe it doesnt count but its wrong and its annoying. I dont know, but it happens more often than youd think. I dont think most people realize how annoying it is, especially when it becomes a pattern of speech, which it often does. I say borough as burrow and mirror as mirror, not meara. I saw it as SORE-ree. For example someone says I went to the store, then the gas station, and then got something to eat. culture that (IMO) is ruining our educational system. I wonder ifnah, prolly not. The truth is clear. I agree with all the comments. This is currently the speech trend that is driving me insane, even more so sometimes than vocal fry, which really bugs me. I hear it on NPR a lot. Argh!!! Yes, the mute button is hit, the station is changed, and I stop cringing 20 minutes later. A study in 2014 found that although vocal fry, whether used by men or . benefit, I wish to now address your repeated use of the term so No. Pronouncing str like shtr as in shtrong shtrange. Just like everyone else, sometimes reporters need a moment to collect their thoughts. Or, should I say, I have tried to adjust? It is not possible. a. period. I am so happy that I found this website! Listening to NPR is what got this whole thing started a few years back But now these patterns are showing up everywhere. Society doesnt need to do anything. Duffin said she notices if she sounds "too throaty or gravely" while recording. 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. For example: I believe it to be the key to longevity. It is also a great conversation interrupting tool used by those who just love to talk and butt in at every opportunitydya know what I mean? I first noticed it when Joanna Gains talked and now I notice it everywhere. At one point in the history of the English language, you was the *plural* second-person pronoun, and thou was singular. Lisa P. hit the nail on the head. The NPR Podcast. 4) adding definately before every verb 1 the misuse of I These five speech patterns have become rampant in interviews. Sorrey and sorry. But yes now every venture capitalist, techie and aspiring TED talker has a pseudo-self-effacing way of speaking using right and sort ofsoooooo annoying! As a result, many teachers stopped teaching it. A big offender is Marie Harf (former FOX News Dem commentator and former Obama State Department Spokeswoman). It was made popular by chef Gordon Ramsden. Thank you Paige for mentioning the accent on the wrong syllable trend. They are typically found in unscripted, more extemporaneous speech. Look at any Hugh Grant movie, and youll see. "They can feel more comfortable, confident and relaxed, because they feel like they have command of this instrument and their performance," said Hansen. This is what annoys me and I am a woman. Anywho.. I abhor this glottal stop. I was about to write a comment concerning the misuse of me and I when I read yours. Hell start a sentence, but then even before he gets to the part that he wants to bully you into agreeing with, hell stick in a right?! I was convinced I was the only one who noticed the (extremely annoying) uptick of use with the word right in conversation. They also do this in Germany, quite memorably. Its easy to overlook poor speech when an attractive face is delivering the information. (Or should be). She also created and hosted two seasons of Lean & Hungry's award-winning podcast. Another big offender is the reality tv show, e.g. The Alexis character on Schitts Creek has raised this to a hilarious satire. Very annoying habit for a smart lady!! Would my friends laugh if I developed the chirpy voice? And the speech pattern that led me to your page is the one Ive observed in the voice overs on virtually all home improvement shows. If youve ever heard Jedediah Vila, she does it ALL the time. My husband listens to a lot of podcasts, particularly enjoying them while out driving or working in the yard. 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. I want it to stop, NOW! Sorry for the typo of the when it should have been they. Its kind of like way better than going to the library. I began to notice it more and more on TV and in real life and decided that whoever started this trend should be banished to Antarctica for the remainder of his/her life. On one news page I saw it used in four different headlines at the same time. Investigating these complaints opens a window into a long-running debate in the public radio community: what or more precisely, who should NPR sound like? Yes, I found this site while searching for Stephen Dubner annoying speech pattern. This seems to be a dialect issue primarily in the U.S. South, but the writing implement pen is pronounced pin, as the number ten is pronounced tin!. Wu-ut? I mean Seriously? Its like the art of cursive, or long hand writing, which has also become a relic of the past for so many. and I was totally unprepared for it? No. 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! Its far from the only silent letter in spoken English. 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. And I give a slight nod to the d in Wednesday. They read out various super-chats & live comments, chat about various media happenings, but one host, Francis Foster (they are both stand up comedians too) repeatedly says absolutely in response to everything. So many people cannot do it. Its not cute. METAPHORICALLY no one? However preservation of correct grammar, and beauty of the English language is important to me and I refuse to adapt botching of the language. Other wise, this is mostly normal talk for everyone. My current most annoying list includes some new & old (along with my initial yeah, no): 1) Vocalfry, can actually hurt voice. Correspondent Carrie Johnson came to NPR in 2010, after a long career in print. 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. Hmm How about overuse of exclamation points? is my dog No! 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. The education system. I love to hear all types of accents, and regional dialects, as long as theyre intelligible. They clearly make a conscious decision to not have Black announcers speaking in the dominant Black American Vernacular English. ! Fry here and there. Im like my husband uses it for every single thing. Its so common and I cannot believe speakers do NOT hear this on playback?!? I have tried to adjust. I have heard infants using words like this when they are learning, but to hear it coming from the mouth of a grown woman? I have noticed lately female newscasters seemingly trying to avoid monotony by raising then lowering the pitch of the last syllable in a sentence. Epic, etc. Shes in her mid-50s and old enough to know better. Should school lectures take place on the moon, or just remotely via satellite? It may have been the one I just quoted. I hear it all of the time especially as I live in a very affluent, lily white area. 3) but think back to TV shows or movies from the 1950s or 1940s, the Trans Atlantic accent and men sounding like radio show hosts. But journalists can sound clear without all sounding the same. 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. The millions of people who comprise society absolutely do not need to adapt to the annoying speech patterns of an entitled few. Also da for the has been trending. He joins us. Lately, I have noticed by newscasters and others on TV the word expecially, which of course does not exist. Receive a detailed quote, custom audition, and the ultimate in voice quality. look something like.. this. Im happy to continue commenting as required, as Ive plenty more to say on the subject! Theres another pronunciation of words that drive me to distractionor in this case I should say diSHtraction. There are a lot of great voices too though. The interior is super soft leather!. You obviously havent heard anyone say super over and over. why do young women want to sound freaky? 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. The vocal twerk I hear in men (mostly) is Listenfeels like a subtle form of bullying. 3. Simstrom ascribes those criticisms to gender: "I have long had a theory that part of what people take issue with about our show is women speaking authoritatively about science.". and our For example, when they pronounce the word eight they say eigh-tah just pronouncing the last letter. NPR seems to be doing a full-out Jessica Rabbit Via . The fact of the matter is that the matter is not predicated upon fact, that its merely opinion or rumor, and that a huge majority of the time its from a political pundit whos paid by the broadcast network to establish a strawman argument to knock down the entire position of the other political pundits (not paid by the network). You should receive an employer of the year award. We dont pronounce the t in soften, of fasten, or glisten. Listening to our local news reporters causes so much stress! Who started that? Maybe I can strap them to a chair and rake my finger nails down a chalkboard! 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. This is why I refuse to hire young people! I mean This completely unnecessary phrase seems to just be a habitual way to start sentences for many people. Is it to have a snippet of time before responding? The one that really gets to me, (in addition to all the ones already mentioned), is the starting of a sentence with Wait, what? My biggest pet peeve is, still, the overuse of like. A proper use example is: Parenting is an awesome responsibility. At the end of a sentence? thing (and, as illustrated, often prematurely ending a sentence that actually wasnt? If I could type in this format, it would look something like this. Love thatNo problem. And they do it a lot. I am forever hearing me and my friends instead of my friends and I. Its like special effects in cinema: theyre not special anymore if a movie is 90% special effects. Reporters get these complaints directly, too. 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. As a young woman who sometimes subconsciously dips into this lower vocal register, I don't even notice when radio reporters speak with vocal fry. Im done. Yeah, used in this odd transitional way. So, after reading literally every single comment, I am pondering the question; is it ironic that were all complaining about an enormous range of vocal variants (or variations?) He transcribed what she had said, changed the text color of "a few errors" to red, and suggested his own improvements in green brackets. We receive a regular stream of complaints about how reporters and hosts talk on air. This is a difference due to where one was raised to speak. ", In the ensuing #PubRadioVoice conversation, now-host of Weekend Edition Sunday Lulu Garcia-Navarro tweeted about a similar experience. Didnt sonds like Di-int, Couldnt sounds like Cou-int. Whenever I hear someone begin a statement with Look, I long to interrupt and say, Im looking.. No. But in between this & because Im bored at home, they do something called a live stream, which I didnt usually watch. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Debbie Grattan is a top-rated professional female voice over talent with more than 25 years of experience delivering voice over services worldwide. In the U.S., though, the phrase is different from. When I hear than, I want to scream. I am Jack and this is my dog Thats the sky, thats the sea, and that? Some of the family members have a better capacity to use words, language & phraseology than others that still use upspeak, vocalfry, text slang & whining. context or discernible link to the discussion. You know what I mean? It sends the message that only some people can be trusted to report the news. At first, I thought maybe he was just discovering a new feature in the product he is explaining but it has become clear it is just something he blurts out every few minutes. One reason we don't comment on reporters' voices is because voice is personal. Do you see the bu**un? She pointed out that Ira Glass, the host of This American Life who has an iconic radio voice, uses a lot of vocal fry. The author ends a sentence that I assume was not a quote of someone else, with these words; And, therein lies the issue. No statement can ever, ever stand on its own without an intensifier. I thought I was an a-hole for being annoyed at these things. I mean, like, Im literally, like, here. .ANY Mouth smacking, Ttt or Tsk between every phrase, or hearing saliva sounds !!! I am finding it increasingly more difficult to watch television, or listen to certain radio broadcasters, due to distracting speech patterns and styles. Even politics reporter Detrow, who doesn't hear from listeners about his voice, said he evaluates his own interviews. It is hard to describe but Ive narrowed it down to when a woman has to tell a story or recount something that has a list of things in it. I wonder if there is a name for this yet? Really finished yet?). I have to wonder if schools still teach sentence diagrams. 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. He has also shortening him and them to em. I am glad you are pointing them as incorrect and idiotic. 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. She likened speaking into a microphone to a "performance that should be as authentic as possible.". You asked your readers what we would like for you to include in your next video. The difference in their abilities to communicate well, resolve conflicts, and reach desired goals with less confusion is notable. Awesome and absolutely. The T-dropping is especially irritating because it sounds like something a very young kid would do and I HATE when adults talk like toddlers. Why? If I.could. The spaces are inappropriate and create tension for the listener. Or it can negate what they just said, or preface a criticism or negative comment. It's not just one part of America or one slice of America," he said. Vocal fry is the most annoying thing on the planet to me. As a naturalized American citizen I am paying attention to my execution of sentences and the intonation. Maybe we could call it Blah-de-Blah Speak. Maybe its the microphones? Thank you so much, Debbie and Baz! No. Tripp, I agree completely. And what about people now pronouncing the t in often? Seems to be a constant request for recognitionas if we somehow cant stop to ask if we dont understand something. As in, Yo, Im tellin you, shtraight up, this thing is yuge, aight?, Yes, no I dont like all of those bad habits either AND the inverse No, yes we should all be aware these speech patterns are happening increasingly.. Its done a lot in the German language, too (which makes sense, if you think about it). And, when a person says, you are smarter than I, the am is implied as in I am. Finally, it is a bid to keep the floor. Ummm also people who ummm say ummmm uncontrollably as well as the yeah, no phrase that is everywhere. Button, mountains Stoooop with the glottal stop! I dont watch the show often, but find the interaction interesting & noticed the speech differences early on. (Said in a condescending nerd voice: So. Or is it gender? thank you again for such a thoughtful response. (Mark Memmott, the standards and practices editor, has addressed some of those issues in the past.). And, I feel its time to bring the old standards back. Its kinda crazy, right? Thanks for reading and commenting with such a detailed response, Adrianne. The bulk of revenues coming from programming fees, grants from foundations or business entities, contributions and sponsor-ships. Hansen coaches voice for NPR, corporate groups, professional theater companies, podcast hosts, journalists, and private clients nationwide. Thatsaid when I want to pause, shake my head a little & say Wait, what?. 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. Is it the c thats throwing them, or are they getting it confused with the word anxious? THAT new vaccine, THAT plane crash, THAT police shooting its really getting annoying. This is certainly not limited to lower social groups; its becoming endemic in very educated middle class professionals. I found this article looking for answer to that question. Or is this merely habit? The inflection pattern the hosts use in every sentence of every voice over is exactly the same. I cannot remember any time that the person uttering that delusional phrase wasnt in political arts.. Also, I heard earlier on a My Pillow commercial a similar error which I failed to write down. Sportscasters use it, friends use it in convos, but uh, hey, whats wrong with that? 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. Yep, that's right. Ugh! What about the most recent one where you say structure with a glottal g/sh that sounds like struh-sherr? Its definitely annoying! I actually literally sat down. I like to respond: as opposed to figuratively sat down, I suppose. But here is the one trend that makes every cell in my body burst: It is when (perhaps two trends, but related), for example, a writer or announcer will state there are two reasons for situation X. the first is Y. All of this is from one person. Did you see that? 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 . Though, not usually in a professional setting. It is not good representation of the general population; especially the show where it is only women who have the speech impediments. I am now hearing full glottal stops ( I think that is the correct term) being ignored. Does that mean that Aussies and New Zealanders are not sure of themselves? caused your repeated use of the vague term, space, without a specific First, they sound like they are pedaling up a hill. 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