Tendency amongst young American women to employ Vocal Fry
Sep 3rd 2021, 9:31 am
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Re: Tendency amongst young American women to employ Vocal Fry
Annoying words: "like" , "honestly" , "literally"
When speaking, what's the deal with everyone starting a sentence with "honestly" ? Does this mean the person is only being honest when they start a stence with "honestly". This was not common in the 90s and early 2000s.
When speaking, what's the deal with everyone starting a sentence with "honestly" ? Does this mean the person is only being honest when they start a stence with "honestly". This was not common in the 90s and early 2000s.
Sep 9th 2021, 11:43 am
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Re: Tendency amongst young American women to employ Vocal Fry
Further to my earlier post, here’s a really interesting article from NPR about radio voices, and how some younger reporters and commentators have in the past felt pressure to adapt their voices to traditional white, Midwest, middle class radio norms.
https://www.npr.org/sections/publice...eal-person-too
Anyway, this article has quite a long section devoted to vocal fry. Among the observations; people over the age of forty are annoyed by vocal fry, complain about it, and don’t find experts or commentators who employ vocal fry to be authoritative. People younger than forty aren’t bothered by it.
https://www.npr.org/sections/publice...eal-person-too
Anyway, this article has quite a long section devoted to vocal fry. Among the observations; people over the age of forty are annoyed by vocal fry, complain about it, and don’t find experts or commentators who employ vocal fry to be authoritative. People younger than forty aren’t bothered by it.
Edit: I haven't yet read the link but I do recall some positing that the habit was started by women trying to elbow their way into male dominated jobs, sounding like a man was supposed to bring a gravitas that a feminine voice couldn't???
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Sep 9th 2021, 12:18 pm
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Re: Tendency amongst young American women to employ Vocal Fry
...And having read the article I would like to point out that while it bugs the crap out of me my manners get the better of me and I don't go round complaining to all and sundry, except on here, but hey... 
More recently, however, my bugbear has been ****wits like Lindsey Graham who apparently are intelligent but live up to the stereotype of their accent...
More recently, however, my bugbear has been ****wits like Lindsey Graham who apparently are intelligent but live up to the stereotype of their accent...
Sep 10th 2021, 6:16 pm
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Re: Tendency amongst young American women to employ Vocal Fry
On the plus side while they may talk / sound different, at least I can understand what they are saying.
I went to university in Manchester and there were people I met in the North of England who I could not fully understand what they were saying beyond them calling me “duck” and “pet”.
I went to university in Manchester and there were people I met in the North of England who I could not fully understand what they were saying beyond them calling me “duck” and “pet”.
