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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the article: "And maybe, just maybe, we should all try to worry less about the way people speak (or dress or...) and instead try to actually listen to and hear what they're saying.
So vocal fry? Don't vocal fry? Do what you want! Because if our crappy earbud headphones have taught us anything, it's that content matters more than the quality of delivery."[/quote]

Yeah sorry I know this was a posting fail- I like the video but totally disagree with the article. In all parts of life it is not what people say but how they say it. If you uptalk, can't speak with conviction, fry your words, etc I can't take you seriously. [/quote]

Yes, and I'm a woman in a position to decide whether I hire you, or not.

The 'get a life' PPs may want to consider that.   [/quote]

You wouldn't hire a girl/woman because she speaks with vocal fry? I guess you must be deluged with highly-qualified applicants.

Note that men creak, and men uptalk -- it's just that nobody minds when men do it. They only mind when girls/women do it. Why do you suppose that is?

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=20155[/quote]

I'm the female dept. head PP back again.  Baloney.  Uptalking sounds stupid independent of gender.   I have a son, he's 12, and you'd better believe I figuratively slap the low-education vocal affectations right out of him when I hear them.   To date, he's been guilty of up-talking when telling a long story.  I call him on it every time: "And then we went to laser tag? And Aidan was there? And my team had better guns? But we still lost because one wasn't working?"

Uptalking, vocal fry and interminable Uhmmmmmmmms just don't fly in my profession at the higher levels.   I only claim to know medicine but I suspect there are other professional settings where the hesistant, hair twirling, faux-ironic voiced applicants also get passed over.    None of my State Dept friends uptalk.  I've never met a $$ucce$$fuL litigator with that stupid fry.[/quote]

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