Great discussion on these affectations of speech, thank you. All of this is from one person. Okayone more and Im done. Where did it come from and what were they thinking? I will change the channel when people speak in this manner, and when I have to put up with an advertisement before a video starts, I will simply repeat over and over to block them out, la la la la la until it is over. its so not fairah!!. Public radio should mean that all voices, relaying solid reporting, are respected enough to inform the country. We all have a few annoying speech/writing habits.). It was made popular by chef Gordon Ramsden. every word. I see and hear it every dingle day and never heard a man do it. It irritates me to see UR instead of you are or switched RU ,are you? She is one of the favorite voices in the NPR. And another one is annudder (another). Often theyll be a so tacked on to the start. I am Jack and this is my dog Thats the sky, thats the sea, and that? As an american transplant living in Germany, the phrase I noticed most from my European colleagues is quite some. And please stop using hangin out and you guys.. Thuh, preceding a word starting with a vowel! Thanks for any suggestions. Nothing new! One reason we don't comment on reporters' voices is because voice is personal. I cant keep track of the number of very interesting podcasts with important messages that Ive had to turn off because of the horrible vocal fryyyyyyyy. Me too! This is what annoys me and I am a woman. As Ted brought up a few posts up: the ubiquitous use of the words sort of by media drives me nuts! Linguists usually refer to it as creaky voice. So creaking is a reasonable thing to call it. to make it sound as it is so amazing, and all-important. A new one Ive just started noticing on a local radio interview, and from my husband (ugh) is accentuating the word to and a pause. Remember this rant next time you hear Were all in this together blah blah blah., By the way Im not real keen on the use of repurpose or deconstruct.. Yet literally all of my female colleagues get constant criticism for how they speak or sound. at the start of your answer to each question I asked, and also your This is certainly not limited to lower social groups; its becoming endemic in very educated middle class professionals. Is it to have a snippet of time before responding? As a public school teacher here in Florida for almost 40 years, Ive noticed the precipitous decline in our educational standards for years now. Why, just why? You and me both. Ive been trying to figure out the speech pattern of an acquaintance its causing me irritation and anxiety. Sometimes reporters do incorporate feedback about their delivery. Today IS the first day of Spring She has performed in television, film, stage, voiceovers, and commercials. Did college professors never say.hey, thats annoying and unprofessional? I think it was around this time that the issue of vocal fry came to the foreground on NPR. hide caption. Its just a dialect difference. What about the most recent one where you say structure with a glottal g/sh that sounds like struh-sherr? Jessica Hansen is the voice of NPR's funding credits, and serves as an in-house voice coach for NPR. Weird or unique ways of speaking are one way to get noticed. It may be a form of ageism, but there is truth to every stereotype. Now that youve become painfully aware of my top five annoying speech patterns, please share your ownspeech pattern pet peeves. a. period. Its interesting to see how the pureness of the English language can be corrupted in some ways, by modern speech patterns, mostly by native English speakers. They are typically found in unscripted, more extemporaneous speech. And listeners have seriously strong feelings about this stuff. Socially, or even professionally, person to person, I dont let them bother me too much. Its my second or third. I thought, I am absolutely not going to have my child taught by this woman., Short as become like oswords like class and that are pronounce as closs and thot.. Imitating neanderthals? I say borough as burrow and mirror as mirror, not meara. She has taught throughout the Washington metropolitan area, including the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and American University. 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. FIGURATIVELY no one? The pay is $18 an hour, and Id start on next Monday, soyeah. (My 18-yo granddaughter, recently). I DO say February. 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. But of-ten sets my teeth on edge. I call it excessive schwa-ing. Shes in her mid-50s and old enough to know better. I hope that is not the case. I just wish I had a remote control that worked on people with a tangible presence. Phoebe Judge (Criminal) is also lovely, as is Roman Mars (99 PI). If you can even record a sample of it and then create a short little video that you can upload to Youtube so its easy to share the audio, that would be good too. Absolutely! Someone must start these silly fads. Lets take a selfie of you and I. I know my rights Im a tax payer!). The sad thing is people who should know better obviously dont.murlean. 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? So many people cannot do it. Thanks for your comment! To say that all these fad-driven speech patterns are kinda, sorta, well I dont know, annoyingmay seem a bit harsh. No more changing anything. The use of You know what? just before every seemingly unrevealing statement is huge in Australian parlance, um well at least in Melbourne. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. 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. its there, though much less pronounced (sic.). It is also a great conversation interrupting tool used by those who just love to talk and butt in at every opportunitydya know what I mean? And lets not ignore the disproportionate amount of times speech pattern analysis (even here, in this comment section) is essentially just an excuse to satisfy a societal itch to hate things that are trending amongst young women. Its mostly young females, but some young dudes do it as well. All of this is from one person. Ive had to stop watching MSNBC, because Rachel Maddow lards her hour with the use of right. Worse is Chris Hayes, who doesnt even use right properly! These five speech patterns have become rampant in interviews. Thank you, Debbie! Ive been looking to see if i can find more information about where this is coming fromdrives me crazyuh. There are many more I could come up with, but tedious at the moment. YESSSS!,,,,,, the staccato speech is driving me away from tv. That holds true for the sources NPR interviews on the air, just as it does for the voices of correspondents and hosts. Of course, once he shared them with me,I started hearing them, too. Ummm also people who ummm say ummmm uncontrollably as well as the yeah, no phrase that is everywhere. Another more recent pattern I hear most often by women is speaking in the low register of their voice. If you cant say it right how can you spell it correctly. In our house it is forbidden LOL. I dont have any neck pain? Its hard to come up with additional topics, since so many of the biggies were already discussed. As a naturalized American citizen I am paying attention to my execution of sentences and the intonation. I wonder if its the education system, or perhaps social media or television. Thank you so much for validating my comments to my skeptical wife. Also on the rise Yah, Yah to express approval, agreement, excitement. Im trying to find this info, too. It wasnt just that the election campaign this year was ugly, right? As a result, my tolerance for vocal tics is definitely lower than it used to be. In that regard, there is clearly several areas where the linguistic phrases are a product of generation, e.g., texting shortcuts used in other contexts, borrowing from pop culture. For example, Im from the southeastern USA. I wonder ifnah, prolly not. Anyone who wishes to sound like an idiot is well within his or her rights to do so. Maybe it is something that every generation deals with, so perhaps its just the age, life experience and maturity that needs to be there before common sense advice can sink in. I have to tune her out because I cant stand to listen to her talk. Your email address will not be published. Or it can negate what they just said, or preface a criticism or negative comment. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notification of new posts by email. Thatsaid when I want to pause, shake my head a little & say Wait, what?. e.g. Real News Host; Also, many of our viewers are likely wondering what It may have developed independently in both places. Where Youre welcome implies that you went out of your way and accept their thanks as your praise. Im like my husband uses it for every single thing. OK. How about the recent clipping to the end of some words. Example.. 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. Anyone who thinks these things dont (or shouldnt) matter should think again. Privacy Policy. Listen to Dr. Blassey Ford. 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. 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. Am I alone in this? It feels like they want attention, or something else, from us and are using what they think are caressing tones. Someone told me it started with the Kardashians, which doesnt surprise me if thats true. This is a great discussion! 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. I thought I was an a-hole for being annoyed at these things. For more information, please see our Then in addition to vocal fry they have to insert the word super at least once into each sentence. Sounding clear and natural on air takes time and practice. would. Then I grabbed a coffeeeee. She, indeed, speaks in a style you typically don't hear on serious news channels which NPR is special for . Some of my pet peeves are as follows: is it hipster talk? Its so common and I cannot believe speakers do NOT hear this on playback?!? Yes, I have an accent, but I use proper English as my model to imitate. Allowing reporters to sound like themselves helps NPR reflect the variety of identities in its audience, and meet its long-term goal to "sound like America," with all of its diversity. this article was originally conceived after listening to NPR and the annoying patterns heard by those that are supposed to be professional broadcasters. OH YES! I began to notice it more and more on TV and in real life and decided that whoever started this trend should be banished to Antarctica for the remainder of his/her life. My biggest pet peeve is, still, the overuse of like. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. The overuse of a particular swear word is also annoying. Like any job, radio journalism requires training. Eleanor Beardsley, and other unique female radio voices. For example: Dont do that-ah! Its so annoying-gah!. And, like uptalk, it seems to be used predominantly by female speakers. 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. It seems to me it takes more effort to speak a word without its T sound in the middle than to speak the word properly! Vocal fry refers to a low, glottal, animal-like sound that speech pathologists consider a vocal disorder. As a mother of 2 teens, I can certainly relate. But journalists can sound clear without all sounding the same. Ive also noticed uptalk transcends position and demographics. Its under the The Up-and-Coming Most Annoying Speech Patterns section. Just as NPR's reporting can expose listeners to new ideas, listening to national radio is an opportunity to hear voices from many backgrounds. ? So, after reading literally every single comment, I am pondering the question; is it ironic that were all complaining about an enormous range of vocal variants (or variations?) I dont think most people realize how annoying it is, especially when it becomes a pattern of speech, which it often does. At least we can take comfort knowing that some of these annoying fillers indeed die out eventually. Very annoying. Theres no room for any reply and honestly, I no longer care. I first heard this on a Dove commercial. Shouldnt voice overs sound like natural speech? No. Hansen coaches voice . Watch ANY interview with a woman and they do this. All the best to you in navigating our wonderful world of words! I agree. I hear these daily with the younger crowd at work, and it has become an epidemic, catching on with even older folks. Uptalk, a subset of valspeak, is the habit of producing a rising inflection as if youre asking a question even when youre not? Quick, before you faint! I find it so distracting that I dont hear what theyre saying anymore, and thats not good. ^ That, I hear all the time (Southern California). And, while you're at it, also check out Amanda Hess' take on the vocal-fry debateaka Why Old Men Find Young Women's Voices So Annoyinghere. And Why It's. So Annoying Audio Funny Language More: 'Reply All' is a podcast which does not do this 7 years ago As the creator of this clips puts it: "All my favorite US podcasts are being ruined by this universally adopted affectation. If youve ever heard Jedediah Vila, she does it ALL the time. Thanks for commenting Doyle, thats a new one I havent noticed yet. Now, once in a while I see the dramatic purpose of such a structure, but every dang time, every single dialogue. Yet its undocumented. I get all excited about what Im telling, when he suddenly blurts out, Finish a sentence! I am confounded; I get angry; I reiterate, for the umpteenth time, I cant help it! As in: Reporter: Do you favor wearing masks in public to help slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2? I agree with all the comments. Young women of all nationalities reporting from the most secluded parts of the world use these odd tones, rhythms and inflections. Hmm How about overuse of exclamation points? It's BS. Maybe it is that when I hear those tones I think Im about to be bitten. Thank you Baz for this eloquently written commentary. The overuse of superlative adjectives. 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. Ill add the slow sing-songy way people have started to talk. You can shream ashuss g t v. The 2021 Dream Home is looking good and wanting you to win it. It seems to be many white females that Im noticing using this trend. Im a Southerner but I absolutely hate it. not pronounce the actual vowel, but rather make it the aaaaah sound. 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