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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband is always calling me out on vocal fry. I can't help it and it drives me insane. [/quote]

try to help it[/quote]

I don't need anyone to dictate my speech habits thank you very much.[/quote]

But actually, you have changed your speech habits.  No one is born with vocal fry.  You have changed your speech habits at some point in your life to "fit in" and now your husband is calling you out on it.

This above poster is saying "try to help it" because you sound....annoying.

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People aren't born with speech patterns at all.  But that doesn't mean that they purposefully adopt or change them.   Speech patterns mostly happen at a subconscious level.  It's only through speech therapy that people are able to consciously change them.

There are some accents and speech patterns I find jarring or unpleasant, but I know that it's usually not the person's fault, necessarily.

I love the uptalk thing when British or Australians do it.  It bothers me more when done in combo with a valley girl accent.  Again, it's mainly aesthetics, but I think it also seems to be the sentence structure as well.  When Brits do it, it comes off as friendlier (more like an "eh").  When valley girl types do it, it tends to take more of a negative (either judgemental or sighing) tone (more like an "uh").
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