Let's end vocal fry!

[Anonymous]

The NPR guy is Ira Glass, the host of This American Life. He actually did a segment on vocal fry, and it's worth a listen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only person who will admit to having vocal fry? I have a Ph.D. I'm not sure if I've always spoken this way or if it's something new for me. I do listen to a lot of NPR-and I sound like an NPR commentator not a Kardashian. Or I may have unconsciously used the creak to lower my register when I started teaching.

I do too, and I also think it has to do with lowering my register for teaching.

I think I know a lot of people who have it that don't necessarily sound annoying, it just sounds like the tone of their voice- those Bruce Willis clips linked above, that doesn't sound like anything other than the way he makes his words.

I think that the annoying "Kardashian" speak is more about the faux nasal stuff, and the going up octaves when you don't need to!

Like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bT60BLYKM

I've heard it called white girl syndrome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd much rather listen to vocal fry than listen to my teenage son's girl friends say literally all the time. It's becoming the new "like". Instead of "He like, called me yesterday!" now it is "He literally called me yesterday."

It literally makes me insane!

+1! I hate this word. I'm in my mid 20's and the last part I went to, I made people take a drink every time they said the word. Most of them were wasted by the end of the night.

[Anonymous]

Male or female, I don't like when people end sentences as if they're questions when they aren't. And I don't like it when the person is clearly trying to use a baby voice. (Usually only women do this, because only men find it attractive.)

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I find it incredibly amusing that you still think that a majority of people would care whether or not you would hire them for your stupid State Dept job.

+1!! Are we supposed to be impressed that you invoked the State Department? Please. Bunch of whiny bureaucrats quickly becoming priced out of DC.

Sadly, I have met a few millennial State Dept employees who have vocal fry. It makes me weep for the future of U. S. Diplomacy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I find it incredibly amusing that you still think that a majority of people would care whether or not you would hire them for your stupid State Dept job.

+1!! Are we supposed to be impressed that you invoked the State Department? Please. Bunch of whiny bureaucrats quickly becoming priced out of DC.

Sadly, I have met a few millennial State Dept employees who have vocal fry. It makes me weep for the future of U. S. Diplomacy.

The Republican response to the Iran deal makes me weep for the future of US diplomacy. I'm not worried about vocal fry in the foreign service.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The NPR guy is Ira Glass, the host of This American Life. He actually did a segment on vocal fry, and it's worth a listen.

Yes I belive he addressed it on This American Life because listeners wrote in to say how f@cking annoying it was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The NPR guy is Ira Glass, the host of This American Life. He actually did a segment on vocal fry, and it's worth a listen.

Yes I belive he addressed it on This American Life because listeners wrote in to say how f@cking annoying it was.

Yeah, but none of those listeners complained about Glass's voice, only those of the young female reporters.

I heard a piece on vocal fry on Fresh Air, and a linguist pointed out that one of the major groups that uses vocal fry is upper-class British men. And no one bitches about them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The NPR guy is Ira Glass, the host of This American Life. He actually did a segment on vocal fry, and it's worth a listen.

Yes I belive he addressed it on This American Life because listeners wrote in to say how f@cking annoying it was.

Yeah, but none of those listeners complained about Glass's voice, only those of the young female reporters.

I heard a piece on vocal fry on Fresh Air, and a linguist pointed out that one of the major groups that uses vocal fry is upper-class British men. And no one bitches about them.

I think I heard the same piece on Fresh Air. I'm pretty sure a speech pathologist or linguist (I forget which) featured on the show also mentioned that it's really bad for your vocal chords.