damn right???
Posted on 12/11/2011 1:13:33 PM PST by Dallas59
A curious vocal pattern has crept into the speech of young adult women who speak American English: low, creaky vibrations, also called vocal fry. Pop singers, such as Britney Spears, slip vocal fry into their music as a way to reach low notes and add style. Now, a new study of young women in New York state shows that the same guttural vibration—once considered a speech disorder—has become a language fad.
Vocal fry, or glottalization, is a low, staccato vibration during speech, produced by a slow fluttering of the vocal chords (listen here). Since the 1960s, vocal fry has been recognized as the lowest of the three vocal registers, which also include falsetto and modal—the usual speaking register. Speakers creak differently according to their gender, although whether it is more common in males or females varies among languages. In American English, anecdotal reports suggest that the behavior is much more common in women. (In British English, the pattern is the opposite.) Historically, continual use of vocal fry was classified as part of a voice disorder that was believed to lead to vocal chord damage. However, in recent years, researchers have noted occasional use of the creak in speakers with normal voice quality.
I think you were supposed to listen to the sound of her voice (gravely) not what she was saying.
Yeah, but it's better than up-talking -- another female speech fad that seems to be fading away.
Not that I'm complaining about the books being free, but it's enough of
a concentration hiccup changing readers between chapters, let
alone accents and genders, but the "stylists" are really annoying.
Still a lot better than the existing stockpile of machine read stuff.
Speaking “frog.”
Everything old is new again.
Evolution of the “Valley Girl”.
Slightly better that the rising lilt at the end of every statement making it sound like a question?
I think that started in western Canada? I was on a ski vacation to Sunshine Village in Alberta back in the '90's and heard the residents talking like that?
Drove me fricking nuts? I mean, really?
damn right???
Sounds like a gaggle of witches to me. You also hear it from the smarty pants liberal Asian college girls.
I would prefer fried fish and chips, with lashings of salt and malt vinegar.
I’ve been noticing this for a good year now. Drives me nuts. Dumb ass affectation.
Many of the science podcasts I listen to have women that talk this way. Up until now I thought they were just uneducated dorks that speak this way. For a good example, check out the “Stuff you missed in history class” podcasts at howstuffworks.com.
I think I got iiiiitttttt.......
Am I righttttt?
One day while I was out walking,
I chanced upon two women talking,
Their voices grew low,
Frightfully so!—
‘Til they both sounded like Stephen Hawking.
Yeah, that was me - maybe a week or so ago.
I've been noticing that peculiar lilt among young guys for some time now. It's not all of them. Mostly the ones from major urban areas, but it's creeping beyond the borders of the big cities through mass media.
If you heard any clips of the young guys in the Occupy protests being interviewed, they almost all had that sing-songy, homo sounding accent. It's so pervasive, that I don't think they even hear it.
OMG, I hate that. I simply refuse to spend any quality time talking to a person who has that habit.
Severe ridicule may be the only cure for these stupid vocal oddities.
I’m kind of funny - I really don’t like listening to people via youtube, news clips, etc. I try to always read transcripts or articles. Because the sound of peoples’ voices sticks in my mind, I catch their emotions and consciousness in a sense, or taste it, via the sound of their voice. For instance, I’ve only heard 0bastard a very few times, and each time I shut it off very quickly.
I don’t know why I have such an abhorrance for hearing like this, my ears are very senstiive? I’m a sort of musician? I never watch movies or TV so I’m raw? I don’t know...
I knew a girl who did that when she was,,,,,, errrrr,,,, nevermind.
Maybe it’s a pseudo-intellectual reaction against “upspeak” — i.e., a way to show that you’re NOT a valley girl!
And IMHO, it’s not nearly as bad as the growing fad whereby almost every sentence starts with the word “so” — a phenomenon that probably began among the professorate and has now trickled down to recent college grads. Most of the OWS protestors seem to talk this way.
Moreover, neither of these grating habits is as awful as Billy Jeff Clinton’s old seasonal refrain, “Merry Christmas from Hillary and I!”
when they do it, say "I don't know." or something indicating you think you are answering a question, and when they say don't know what, tell them "You ask me a question didn't you???" see what they say then...
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