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. Can you tell us about the car accident you witnessed today? this article was originally conceived after listening to NPR and the annoying patterns heard by those that are supposed to be professional broadcasters. 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. My wife has been sucked in and watches all of these, albeit now in private, as I spend most of my time pointing out how these dumb narcissistic losers, sap the very life out of all right-thinking folks within humanity. Sadly, we all need to bite our tongues. I must be getting old, I sound like my parents. They have this childish high pitched baby voice and its like stabbing my ears with bamboo skewers. 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. OMG! Another big offender is the reality tv show, e.g. I relate to it now as it is the absolutely worst thing ever and the commercial uses the cymbals to change it into some great thing, which it is not. By saying that (usually at the end of a sentence) it prevents someone else from talking or contributing their 2 cents, waiting for whatever follows the But.uh. Its not cute. Its definitely annoying! I am a voice artist as well and I make SURE there is no creaks in my work! ta instead of to Permeating WiFi, etc.? Socially, or even professionally, person to person, I dont let them bother me too much. The tone, rhythm, and inflections grate on the ear. That drives me INSANE!!!! Some are even doing it on purpose. Reporters strive to sound clear and concise on air. 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. There are several blogs online, written by women who think society needs to stop being critical of their way of talking; i.e. 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. Start the answer with a yeah., I love these comments! Its interrupted cadence. I came here to see if anyone else had noticed that young women are suddenly dropping the T sound in the middle of wordsor if maybe theyd been doing it all along and I only just noticed and am now hearing it everywhere. It reminds me of the French who often tack on a oui or non at the end of a sentence, non? Required fields are marked *. Its not just insincere, its rude, as if theyre annoyed at having to say it. I have assumed theyre trying to sound British, which may also account for the glottal stop (i think thats the correct term) in words like curtain, mountain, sweeten etc. Person 1: What is your viewpoint on the plight of South African farmers? A sentence in which one says nothing: I knooow! 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. Im only 40 but I feel like a rambling old person yelling at the TV any time I watch it. Its just annoying affectation and you KNOW they know better but they think it is adding something. Grown men purposely deforming their mouth to speak like a FREAK! He told me: That is a sign that I've opened them up, they feel comfortable and they're talking in the way that they just regularly talk. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notification of new posts by email. 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. There's still debate in the medical community about whether vocal fry harms the vocal folds, but Hansen said it can stress them. The one thats driving me crazy is this extra schwa added to the ends of words. "People forget that there's a person on the other end of the email," Duffin said. 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. It has become so prevalent that someone has to be telling them that this is the proper way to speak and I would like to know who it is. Also da for the has been trending. Thank you Paige for mentioning the accent on the wrong syllable trend. If he catches that he's saying "you know" a lot, he'll try to cut down on using it. 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. These are commentators, announcers, and reporters!! !, WAIT-aahh. Also, I heard earlier on a My Pillow commercial a similar error which I failed to write down. and I was totally unprepared for it? Its my second or third. 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. METAPHORICALLY no one? It is an art not a nuisance. I didnt read through all of the comments but one I didnt see mentioned is the common trend now, most especially (again) by young to even college aged females adding Nearly 15 years ago, a previous Public Editor bemoaned the lack of aural diversity on NPR. Everything is now amazing. Has anyone experienced this verbal hostage taking? 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? 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. I am particularly by the long, drawn out letter r at the end of a word: culturrrrr. I get annoyed when people on TV or radio speak too quickly while also using fillers such as umm or uh. They even create elaborate spoofs, like this send-up of the "annoying" podcast voice. Basically, many people, young people and more often women, will take a short vowel sound and make it a schwa sound ie. Theres no room for any reply and honestly, I no longer care. We drink when we hear Emily Bazelon and her cronies say ta on the Political Gabfest. Yet many here dont seem to question their own speech patterns or prejudices. Look at what?? I wonder if anyone was listing to the message and if the listeners are able to verify the accuracy or validity of the content. I believe he is from the Bay Area in California. She suddenly realizes she slipped into AAVE for a few words because we were speaking casually. Yeah at the beginning of a question that was not yes-or-no. Someone. Part Two: Here Comes AI, Is the Golden Age of Voice Over Gone? Its like the art of cursive, or long hand writing, which has also become a relic of the past for so many. Mostly female but males do it too. I think it was around this time that the issue of vocal fry came to the foreground on NPR. I hope that there will be some attention paid to restoring some respect for our language in generations to come. There is no place in the adult, professional world for this nonsense. SO NECESSARY! As in: Reporter: Do you favor wearing masks in public to help slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2? Recent research into vocal fry suggests that women do indeed have a tougher go of it than men when their voices slip into a lower register. After she appeared live on Morning Edition for the first time, she received a detailed email from a listener, urging her to stop using filler words. 4. It's BS. 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!. That means some listeners have to adjust to new sounds. Profeasionally, it comes down to efficiency and economy not to waste talk time with meaningless utterances or distractions. 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. I didnt know there was a word for that! I find it close to impossible to think that these sounds are solely mimicry. I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. I suppose since the rulers of NPR have daughters who all speak like this. Does anyone say FebRuary without sounding ridiculous? It was made popular by chef Gordon Ramsden. Thatsaid when I want to pause, shake my head a little & say Wait, what?. What is it called when people stress the end of the last few words of a sentence as if they are using. to make it sound as it is so amazing, and all-important. My current favorite is folks who add the word literally to every statement. ", Another listener from Minnesota wrote that "millennial correspondents" who speak with vocal fry "seems to counter NPR's high standards. No problem suggests that I might have been a problem. https://youtu.be/gGEit7Fg9HU. Especially when hearing service providers use it after customers express thanks. I agree with all the comments. That means some listeners have to adjust to new sounds. Ah. Or, when listening to a reporter or expert contributor on radio or television. It grated on my ears. I mean, they really drew it out. As a mother of 2 teens, I can certainly relate. ish instead of pronouncing it as iz. 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. What about using the words at all, at the end of a sentence. I honestly want to slap the crap out of people who super abuse the word super! . Personally, I have a laundry list of poor speech and grammar pet peeves. I would never have understood your point until I saw a commercial during which a delighted homeowner, commenting on a home makeover, said (the most overused word in English as) amazinggah!. How can there or here not be ON the ground, if it is, ON the ground. Filler words mean people are thinking in the moment, he added. Jackie Fortir is a healthcare reporter for StateImpact Oklahoma and part of the NPR-Kaiser Health News partnership. It sends the message that only some people can be trusted to report the news. Vocal fry isnt going away anytime soon because television advertisers use it to show their product is hip. The other annoyance is when someone announces this is a problem as this? The shtraight down the shtreet seems to be 40-45 and under. What brought me here was the irritating way young females pronounce thank you. I agree with Angela Brookman, above, in her complaint about people now refusing to pronounce the T sound in words (Im told the phenomenon has a name: T-glottalization), though I take issue with her examples, clarity and poverty. What drives me up a wall is when young people and that is who is doing this now drop the T sound in the middle of a word, such as kitten. They say kih-uhn. And mitten is mih-uhn, and written is wrih-uhn, and so forth. 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. But journalists can sound clear without all sounding the same. I have heard meara and arrow instead of error. It may have developed independently in both places. I first heard this on a home decorating tv show. I cant decide which I detest more- vocal fry or right. Its kinda crazy, right? Perhaps Im better not to. (Said in a condescending nerd voice: So. They are rampant in the South. Were all in this together. Uh, no we are not. OMG! Just on the cursive I used to teach my 5th and 6th graders cursive writing for at least 30 minutes a day. Their thinking is that they are being fake if they change up. 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. Person 2: So South African farmers are facing difficult times nowadays Its EVERYWHERE on tv, the news reporters and movies. 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.. Paige, 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. Thank you for your comment! Wish the tv stations would actually listen to their employeesfemale reporters are the WORST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I agree with many of the annoying speech discussed here. Why isnt anyone saying to anymore? I suppose if the heart is in the right place, we can forgive some of these transgressions of speech. Thanks for confirming that its a new thing. Uptalk, especially, when talking to a CSR at your bank or other professional organization. ARGH!!!! Sam Sanders, host of It's Been a Minute, said that learning to write in his own voice was difficult. AMEN. You hear it I. interviews with British movies stars. Ive forgone many a great podcast topic due to vocal fry or overuse of right. Videos, I get by with closed-caption options, otherwise just NO. we had a surprise english test? Shouldnt voice overs sound like natural speech? thas instead of thats (which is the abbreviation for that is) Amazing discussion. Please dont waste time and effort with a question you immediately answer yourself just jump in and explain the issue and your opinion about it! I would agree, that often, any form of critique, even for improvement in future and in business, is often dismissed, misplaced, and scoffed at by a younger generation that has grown up with a trophy for participation for anything they do, and often getting passing grades and remarks to send them on, without actually teaching them how to LEARN and QUESTION things. And then those styles get copied and go viral and pretty soon you hear it everywhere. As to use of words, and at least on the radio and applying to both male and female, using ta for to Ive heard world-renowned physicists do this. Imitating neanderthals? I am finding it increasingly more difficult to watch television, or listen to certain radio broadcasters, due to distracting speech patterns and styles. Those filler words of such concern to some listeners are especially likely to slip in on live radio, when there is no opportunity to edit out mistakes or other problems. The one Ive noticed the most lately is the one mentioned by Mary N. And of course the extremely annoying vocal fry. This segment aired on February 27, 2023. Its like they are trying to sound like babies so they are less threatening. At one point in the history of the English language, you was the *plural* second-person pronoun, and thou was singular. 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). For me, the whole So thing is one of these pet peeves that makes me want to smash whatever device Im hearing the word played upon. (Thats okay, Verla. Hansen is a classically trained singer, and has sung with choirs and madrigal groups, in musical theatre, and in jazz and rock bands. Thank you so much, Debbie and Baz! Many people ARE taking advantage of the hot weather. Drives me nuts. I only have radio, and mostly listen to public radio local, national, and world. I also get extremely annoyed by these vocal crutch words so Im glad Im not the only who experiences this! Ive seen it theorized elsewhere that it began as an AAVE regional thing, cant remember which region, that just spread. I felt as though I learned something today. I completely agree with the annoying no problem response from a server after saying Thank you. Great job! 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 collection would be much funnier if the written intro didnt include a sentence beginning I mean The sht thing I noticed way before Michelle Obama, which is sad because she is otherwise very well spoken. Their tone raises up at the parts of the word I typed in capitals.. We all have a few annoying speech/writing habits.). Another one that I have not seen anyone else mention is does that make sense after every sentence. Instant shutdown. And what about people now pronouncing the t in often? 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. I do this, and my co-habitator, unrelenting spirit-breaker guy person interrupts me in the middle of my every effort to engage in a meaning exchange of ideas and information. Kind of (or sort of) This tidbit is used anywhere in the middle, as a way to not say what you really mean. Other wise, this is mostly normal talk for everyone. These are examples of bad grammar, mispronounced words, and slang. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. But it sends up sounding so unintelligent and gutless. Cant find a term for my 2nd pet peeve listing options with an affected inflection for each as in . Vocal fry. I thought I was an a-hole for being annoyed at these things. Different than makes no sense. In fact, theres a show on HBO where EVERY lady character has a speech impediment. Youve covered it all, including the Yes, no stupidity. I enjoyed reading them and replying as well. Kudos. Weirdos lol . It really became a battle of negative personalities in a race to the bottom of common decency.. "We ought to be able to hear all of that in the voices that the audience is hearing, whether that voice is the voice of somebody in a community somewhere in the middle of the country or that voice is the voice of a host or reporter for NPR. Its not clear if upspeak/high rising terminal intonation started in Australia (or even New Zealand), or on the West Coast of the USA. But as the quotes above show, some listeners do notice and they let the reporters know, too. It isnt just a curved exclamation point. But Glass said in that episode that he never hears about his. I can focus and absorb what they are saying so much more easily. Ive been looking to see if i can find more information about where this is coming fromdrives me crazyuh. Perhaps I need to pay more attention to the bungled up speech patterns that are in use. If you cant say it right how can you spell it correctly. "It has expanded my own understanding of the world and the people you have brought on board are excellent," he wrote. I am Jack and this? If I am in another room from the TV and a female news anchor is speaking, it seems all I can hear are explosive ah and eh sounds. Like yourself, Im thinking its a trend. I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. One of the most irritating forms of up talk or vocal fry is when a woman is explaining her day and each sentence is drawn out at the end with an upward inflection, then the next sentence is hooked on at the end with the same down to up trajectory and drawing out the last word to crescendo. People who do not know the difference between fewer and less and when to use them correctly. 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. 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? A proper use example is: Parenting is an awesome responsibility. I wondered if I was alone in my discomfort. Makes me understand why people sometimes get slapped! The kids immediately say, I cant read cursive. Try listing the garnishes you can add to a hamburger ( tomato, lettuce, onion, etc ) without going up in pitch with each word. This post & comments are fun because though annoying is a subjective quality, some of these patterns & phrasing are widely undesirable. While for many VO artists, like you and me, we strive to have a more refined and adjusted voice, that is more pleasing to the ear, I do find that in general media such as TV, film and especially commercials, the prevalence of this is a reflection of the prevalence found in the general population. Ive recently heard this from an organic drink company: However you healthy., Another, from a vitamin supplement company: Want to brain better?. "If you sound like America, then it's America that's talking. 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. Unfortunately the word, the shouting and the angry demeanor are now used by many standup comedians in place of jokes. My friends who do these habits, they do this not just in english language, but also in our native language. This is such a great article, thank you for pointing out all the stupid add-ins people use that are so annoying to me. Im not ashamed to say that I have on frequent occasion shown these dim-witted types the door of my office immediately (usually upon hearing any hint of vocal fry, thats enough to do it), telling them to email me their query, which I then promptly delete without reading, and send them an auto-reply to that effect. He joins us. Producers, who listen while reporters record their scripts, are alert for issues with speed and clarity, and will ask reporters to try again if necessary. NOW, I substitute. Meowing. It starts at home and moves to the classroom. Then in addition to vocal fry they have to insert the word super at least once into each sentence. Simply put, the standards for on-air positions were much higher when I entered the workforce: speaking well was imperative, but not nearly as important as having television looks. speech pattern had a name, because someone in my house started doing it and they are driving me crazy! Stop adding, subtracting, and manipulating language to influence or control the listener. very prevalent among high school kids and their teachers. I want it to stop, NOW! Yes, I found this site while searching for Stephen Dubner annoying speech pattern. I mean This completely unnecessary phrase seems to just be a habitual way to start sentences for many people. Ugh! The Alexis character on Schitts Creek has raised this to a hilarious satire. One thing that bothers me is when people pronounce the word ancient as ankshent. 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. Amongst a lot of youre vocabulary mistakes is one that makes me sick, the yank way of saying, mirror, they say Mirrrrr. The interior is super soft leather!. I understand some countries use to instead of from, and I dont know if thats longstanding or new. These hip speech patterns are used by women in, I would say 90% of the conversations Im involved with or hearing out in public. is You get the idea. No more changing anything. Amen!!! I, too, pronounce both r s in February. I just wish I had a remote control that worked on people with a tangible presence. Sheesh. It is not just annoying, it sounds absolutely ridiculous. It sounds like cookie cutter script. But of-ten sets my teeth on edge. ^ That, I hear all the time (Southern California). 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. I would rather have my guests say the word "like" a lot or me say the word "like" a lot and have a richer, deeper, better conversation that goes more places than have everyone be buttoned up and stifled as guests and you never hear the word "like.". Thanks for a place to vent. There are so many of these annoying speech patterns and they are contagious. 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. 'Ll try to cut down on using it there 's a person on the,... 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