Sam Sanders, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, records a segment at NPR West on September 24, 2018. Merry fucking xmas. 1. She helps people who find they sound monotone, sing-songy or low-energy. I view the word "like" in the entire opposite manner than a lot of those critics. Also, why has everyone started turning ts to ds. I agree though, like the tattoo girl on the Twix commercial that spells NO REGERTS and then says Sawree in that whiny sarcastic voice. the kind of and sort of virus has been making the rounds of cable news hosts and pundits, and its literally driving me crazy, you know what i mean? Duffin, of Planet Money, said that when she's recording she tries to sound like "a more listenable, polished version" of herself. Its kind of like way better than going to the library. I honestly want to slap the crap out of people who super abuse the word super! The other tying vote is dropping the t, as stated above or over pronouncing the t to make up for the cur-an, moun-an folk. No. I completely agree with the annoying no problem response from a server after saying Thank you. And so, yeah. I feel compelled to add an educational commentary on the definition of music when out in public. The power of live radio, after all, is that it's live. What's a listener to do when they hear a voice that they don't like? Literally?! Everyone drops the T here. When closed captioning cannot get a good portion of the words right, Houston we have a problem! NOW, I substitute. These are just regional inflections, not errors per se. (Smirk. Offer them a mask as they debark the plane while thanking them for flying F.U. We cant ignore our own speech patterns if were going to engage in this sort of discussion. Let me explain this simple thing to you dummies. Im reading this because I am driven to distraction now that my husband has started constantly dropping the g from words ending in ing. I know which zoo program youre referring to and I cant watch it either. I dont watch a lot of TV; but when I do I have to mute all the commercials. Fly them in and leave them in the outback. The millions of people who comprise society absolutely do not need to adapt to the annoying speech patterns of an entitled few. She has performed in television, film, stage, voiceovers, and commercials. Ive forgone many a great podcast topic due to vocal fry or overuse of right. Look at any Hugh Grant movie, and youll see. As far as voice sounds, I do hear vocal fry on occasion and I notice men do it as well as women but women are more often chastised for it. I mean, how did people even get through the day before the internet was invented! Where did that come from?? Its far from the only silent letter in spoken English. Hi Gina thanks for your response here. Oh brother, Frankie! Those experiences felt like subtle whitewashing of his voice. Most examples have been covered here. I cant stand when people say I cant even or I just cant with her or some nonsense like that, and they just end it right thereOr when people say YEAH you are with misplaced emphasis. after. If he catches that he's saying "you know" a lot, he'll try to cut down on using it. Paige, Hahaha Russell you are SPOT on! Unfortunately these offensive speech trends have been happening for many decades. More on that idea here. Thank goodness I stopped listening to American mainstream news with all their Aussie employees. Uptalk at ?s. THAT new vaccine, THAT plane crash, THAT police shooting its really getting annoying. Its my second or third. Meowing. YESSSS!,,,,,, the staccato speech is driving me away from tv. This often occurs when a person (on TV) is explaining the steps to any given process to another person: What Im going to do is, Im going to In 2nd person plural, What were doing is, were going to. She has been a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild since 2005. I mean, hello! But even more bothersome is the growing ubiquity of Thank you having me in response to a host or interviewer saying Thank you to a guest at the end of a segment, or even in response to Thank you for joining us at the beginning of their conversation. ? Uptalk, especially, when talking to a CSR at your bank or other professional organization. I had to go to the stoooore, pick up the dry cleaniiiiiing, get some grocerrrrrriiiies, walk the doooooooog. etc. Her words hold me hostage. It isnt just a curved exclamation point. Youre not crotchety. I seem to see/hear it all the time nowadays, normally just after someone has clearly explained the facts around something, but the person reading/hearing it feels the need to demand the person giving out the information to Wait! so they can then ask them What?, as though what theyve just heard is complete nonsense, simply because they havent, (or so it comes across), been able to comprehend it the first time around. I may be a little looser with my language, grammar, slang with my close girlfriend than in a business or unfamiliar situation. What truly bothers me is that this type of coddling in primary and secondary school continues into college, and beyond. Sauvignon Sauv in- yoh (silent n) not Sauv in- yawn. A big offender is Marie Harf (former FOX News Dem commentator and former Obama State Department Spokeswoman). The letter A seems to be the guiding light. Not sure. . My goodness! If something is different from something else, from is the only word that works. I agree I cannot stand the fact that 90% of the population is now using the work awesome in a context and place that has nothing to do with its actual meaning. This was. I notice the upspeak and vocal is prevalent mostly among young white females than anything else..but the valspeak..that is pretty universal..especially I find people my age use it as mostly fillers vs pauses when they are gathering their thoughts with like so ya know..I got 5 siblings w an equal balance of male and females and my parents growing up were drove up the wall by our over use of like. And, for the sake of diplomacy, keeping the peace, or not wanting to appear to be snobbish or hurtful, we have simply stopped giving each other constructive criticism regarding our flaws. Change out. If the person is on TV, I have to change the channel. Its a lisp and something that should have been fixed in grade school. Ive been trying to find what this is called online, and not having any luck. We all have a few annoying speech/writing habits.). I was going to ask her if she had a sore throat but decided to be nice and just get the hell out of there as quickly as possible. I recall an item on the NPR program All Things Considered in the EARLY 90s about the rising inflection? OH YES! ) I watched a high school teacher being interviewed on television and every other word was one of the phrases that make me tune out as I am bound to do when I am forced to watch a powerpoint presentation. thats Mineah! They probably started out as texting shortcuts, but the two I cant stand are LOL crammed into every sentence, and OMG at the beginning of every sentence. I have heard infants using words like this when they are learning, but to hear it coming from the mouth of a grown woman? As Ted brought up a few posts up: the ubiquitous use of the words sort of by media drives me nuts! Just on the cursive I used to teach my 5th and 6th graders cursive writing for at least 30 minutes a day. Any and all bridge words used frequently in conversation is exceedingly annoying. Though, not usually in a professional setting. Sounding clear and natural on air takes time and practice. 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.. Like many here, I listen to a good deal of NPR-ish broadcasts and podcasts. Instant shutdown. Ive been listening to a lot of podcasts lately and obviously, most of them have commercials. 'Planet money,' 'This American Life,' 'Radiolab,' 'Startup' Why? I started listening to podcasts regularly in the past year and find that I really zero in on speech patterns since Im not distracted by how the speaker looks or moves. Yes, I found this site while searching for Stephen Dubner annoying speech pattern. These hip speech patterns are used by women in, I would say 90% of the conversations Im involved with or hearing out in public. Children these days arent even taught it anymore, and should they actually receive a hand-written note, they act as if they are translating some strange foreign sandscript language, to even try and read it. 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.. This is why I refuse to hire young people! Maybe its the microphones? A sentence in which one says nothing: I knooow! Finally, it is a bid to keep the floor. Ayesha Rascoe is an American journalist for NPR famous for her accent and distinctive voice for news delivery. You and me both. And the horrible grammar: Her and I. I have a small business and refuse to hire anyone who speaks like anyone described in the article or these annoying ways of speaking. Ugh! But, over the past few years students have become increasingly reproachful as if I am purposefully attacking their generation. Ive recently heard this from an organic drink company: However you healthy., Another, from a vitamin supplement company: Want to brain better?. Maybe it is that when I hear those tones I think Im about to be bitten. It has become so prevalent that someone has to be telling them that this is the proper way to speak and I would like to know who it is. For example youre not just happy to be here today youre SUPER happy. Its super annoying. Corollary: being excited about even the most routine, long-anticipated events, such as the press release I saw last week about a new software upgrade that the developer was super excited to announce. That was actually in the written press release. Add on the ground. Even when an exact location is given, the ubiquitous use of on the ground, drives me quite mad. For some reason, untold numbers of people now seem to think its pronounced teee-eew. I find that more often there is not an understanding of why this might be appropriate, especially by my younger students & family members. Tripp, I agree completely. Not long in to our conversations, Ive tuned out. Politician: Look, we in my state believe that those people working in the aerospace industry are important. Jessica Hansen, one of the voices of NPR's funding credits and its in-house vocal coach, helps reporters hone their voices for air. Ive noticed that, too. Lets take a selfie of you and I. Recent research into vocal fry suggests that women do indeed have a tougher go of it than men when their voices slip into a lower register. I cannot remember any time that the person uttering that delusional phrase wasnt in political arts.. Unfortunately most people dont even notice they have been infected, or they simply dont care, leaving people like me to go crazy. Initially I read your comment as a knock on the Canadian pronunciation of sorry. She doesn't mind sounding human. Ive noticed an increase in the pronunciation of to as tyoo but it seems more frequent when the speakerthey seem to be mostly femaleelongates the word, perhaps suggesting that its said when the speaker is having a moment of reflection or being pensive; that it is becoming universal on television news and commentary is undeniableand is becoming an annoyance, These are probably the same girls that used to (or possibly still do ) say things like stop itah!! I am also hearing a and an used incorrectly. They also do this in Germany, quite memorably. I find it close to impossible to think that these sounds are solely mimicry. Its as if speakers dont care whether their grammar is correct. Its bazaar. Based on a 2010 NPR Music survey of its listeners * Missing: Mohammad-Reza Shajarian * Ahmad Zahir * Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan * Asha Bhosle * Esma Redzepova * Sezen Aksu * Dennis Brown * Radmilla Cody * Khaled * Twinkie Clark * Amalia Rodrigues * Concha Buika * Chavela Vargas * Camaron de la Isla Dont do that-ah! Its so annoying-gah!. Super everything Super excited because its super boring and Im tired of being super disappointed. But among friends all the time. Filet Mignon: Min-yoh, not min-yawn. NPR must be making a conscious decision to allow all of this. How NPR's Carrie Johnson found her radio voice. That drives me INSANE!!!! I respectfully disagree. Their thinking is that they are being fake if they change up. After living abroad for over a decade, I noticed in the mid-1990s that, in the workplace, every female in a supervisory position seemed compelled to preface nearly every declarative sentence with, At this time. It was quite ridiculous to hear something like, At this tiiiime, we do not have a vacancy, but wed like to talk to you, so At this tiiime, can you tell me if you could come in at 10:00 on Thursday? All Im hearing from this post is a lot of complaining over nothing. The sad part about the first phrase (Uh, hello.everyone knows the Earth is round) is that anyone has to even say it at all in the 21st century. I have suffered through dozens of interviews with millennials, both male and female, who use vocal fry, up talk and verbal place holders as if their lives depended on it. Being a voice-over talent makes me extremely sensitive to not only the sound of voices I hear on TV, radio and the internet, but also to the words that are chosen. For me, the whole So thing is one of these pet peeves that makes me want to smash whatever device Im hearing the word played upon. Other specialties include female narration voice overs for corporate narration, web videos, tutorials, explainer videos and technical medical narration. Its become hugelycommon, even among expert speakers during formal interviews (just listen to NPR while various experts are interviewed). I must be getting old, I sound like my parents. I have tried to adjust. And yes they sound condescending. And look, weyak, yak, yak.. These are examples of bad grammar, mispronounced words, and slang. People who say: You know, the best way to find out the answers is to just Google it.. "People forget that there's a person on the other end of the email," Duffin said. Leaving the Ts out of a word, as in bu on or ki en. Id love to know how it happens. That holds true for the sources NPR interviews on the air, just as it does for the voices of correspondents and hosts. Investigating these complaints opens a window into a long-running debate in the public radio community: what or more precisely, who should NPR sound like? May I direct my fellow annoyed speech watchers to a major culprit leading to these speech patterns? After she pointed this out to me, I hear an appalling number of people that half hiss/lisp when they speak on reputable news programs. and I was totally unprepared for it? Please. You asked your readers what we would like for you to include in your next video. I see it in newscasts all the time being used by educated people. Can I just start by saying that two very annoying vocal trends that have reached us here in the UK / Northern Ireland in recent years are up speaking and vocal fry, which are bad enough on their own. Psychologicaly though my theory is that women want to be listened to and they do it subconsciously to be heard and for people to pay attention to them. ", It's not quite clear where the style comes from, but Mae West is often cited as an example, so it's not a new phenomenon. And what about people now pronouncing the t in often? Theres no k sound in the word, yet many people want to pronounce it as though there is. Thank you Baz for this eloquently written commentary. The most common is right? when used at the end of a sentence. Thank you for helping me put a name to this! So. The author ends a sentence that I assume was not a quote of someone else, with these words; I meant in first person plural. [sheepish grin], Lets not forget the verbal infestation known as seriously. Clearly, it morphed perhaps by laziness from Are you serious [about]?, 1) I call it the shopping list speech pattern: I went to the store and bought some EGGS.. got some MILK and some BACON And who started everything being super??? Were all in this together. Uh, no we are not. Help. Like, what about the kids, like mostly girls, that like say the word like, like every other word. I am finding it increasingly more difficult to watch television, or listen to certain radio broadcasters, due to distracting speech patterns and styles. Beyond annoying. ^ That, I hear all the time (Southern California). She has studied Alexander, Linklater, LeCoq, Stanislawski, Michael Chekhov, Meisner, Roy Hart, Suzuki, Viewpoints, and many other acting, voice, and movement techniques. Im low on fuel so Im gonna stop and fill up Fine. Pointing this out to friends, Im usually answered by yeah, I noticed, or good old-fashioned shrugs. I suppose if the heart is in the right place, we can forgive some of these transgressions of speech. Consider Bertie Wooster in the Wodehouse Jeeves stories. 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? I am so tired of women trying to sound like little girls and drawing out their s sounds. But many English speakers dont really consider you as plural, because its indistinguishable from the singular, and so they perceive a gap in our pronoun system, which has been filled with a number of informal second-person plural pronouns: yall, you guys, yous guys, you-all, you lot (UK), etc. I first noticed vocal fry around 2007 when two young female supervisors of mine would literally end each sentence with 4 to 5 seconds of vocal fry. The vocal twerk I hear in men (mostly) is Listenfeels like a subtle form of bullying. Im not sure if this was mentioned, but it seems to be an epidemic to list things and use the same pitch patterns ( high, medium, then lower). I have to tune her out because I cant stand to listen to her talk. Every sentence is spoken as a question, whether it is or not. Start the answer with a yeah., I love these comments! I thought I was an a-hole for being annoyed at these things. Im a Southerner but I absolutely hate it. Sam Sanders, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, records a segment at NPR West on September 24, 2018. I growl at every inflected, high rising, ramble sometimes eliciting concerned looks from family members. Producers, who listen while reporters record their scripts, are alert for issues with speed and clarity, and will ask reporters to try again if necessary. My god, every single female and some of the males end every sentence like its a question. How about But uh.. ?? These little speech micro trends seem to pop up every now and then, then fade away over time (thank God!). They must be changed Out. Its funny but also sad that the ways of the world, and so many traditions and really important things are not being passed down to the next generation. Some words are not meant to have all the letters pronounced. Are you listening to me? The voice goes up and slows down, theeeeeeeen, then they list detail 1, and detail two (pause) and detail three. But its when I hear someone who has the astonishing ability to combine those two very irritating trends, as well as throwing in the recent social media driven pointless inane phrases so; I feel like, OMG! etc, that I terminate my involvement in the conversation immediately. One of her favorites is Shtrategy. my grammar and punctuation was intended as sarcasm but the rest was serious. No, thanks. not pronounce the actual vowel, but rather make it the aaaaah sound. Dont get me started on LIKE. Filed Under: Fun Stuff Tagged With: Featured, patterns, speech, voice over style. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Indeed, there's an ongoing conversation within public radio about the extent to which the industry asks some journalists to change their voices to conform to the (mostly white) voices that came before them. Im so glad someone has identified moronic speech that has gone from thoughtful Well,. to the contrary So, as if theyre indicating a confirmation summation that theirs is the correction of an issue. "They can feel more comfortable, confident and relaxed, because they feel like they have command of this instrument and their performance," said Hansen. The 10th Ammendment says differently. Today IS the first day of Spring News Media and Teachers are mispronouncing this word. , Your email address will not be published. For some people, its their dominant speech pattern and they seemingly cant escape it. Really finished yet?). Also umm, like, and ya know interspersed in many informal AND formal conversations. I love to hear all types of accents, and regional dialects, as long as theyre intelligible. For example someone says I went to the store, then the gas station, and then got something to eat. Someone told me it started with the Kardashians, which doesnt surprise me if thats true. 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