No statement can ever, ever stand on its own without an intensifier. Filler words mean people are thinking in the moment, he added. Ask people why they do it (has to be within moments of the list having been sung) and theyll tell you its just a list. 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? This is teh dropping of the letter g at the end of ing words, ie: singin goin droppin etc. 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. Grammatical mistakes are less annoying, but still problematic. Many people ARE taking advantage of the hot weather. or common mispronunciation: Realtor, not Real a tor. All the best to you in navigating our wonderful world of words! My goodness, there are annoying speech patterns in every language, and by sex. EVERY FRICKIN interview has yeah yeah yeah!, more and more in the past 6 or so months. Its one of my many pet peeves in newscaster-speak, and I hear this one all the time especially from Rachel Martin on NPR. Its as if speakers dont care whether their grammar is correct. and our However, Ive noticed a horrible trend, especially on Parcast, to have females doing commercials who sound like babies. And, forward, in all forms unless someone is moving or driving an object ahead of them. 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. It seems to be the new normal. 3) HGTV shows are the worst for this offensive language. Thank you for a great opportunity to express & learn. Segue is a conditional signal that the conversation has changed hands to the other participant. Annoying! One day Im sure Ill lose my job after losing my temper with a patient. Can you tell the audience Maybe we could call it Blah-de-Blah Speak. Im glad to discover I am not alone. If none of you engage in such things, youre likely guilty of the offense that led me to search for endless monotone monologue of older Americans. It can make engaging topics so boring, it makes death enticing. I wonder if they realize they are doing this? Every slimy toady in gangster movies said yeah yeah yeah, Boss, I hear ya, I hear ya! . Seems to be a constant request for recognitionas if we somehow cant stop to ask if we dont understand something. I agree with you with every fiber of my being. Tomorrow WILL be a hot day or I have to bite my tongue and let off steam when I hear Australians speak. Adding an additional, unnecessary syllable to certain words for emphasis: no becomes no-ah and hello turns into hello-ah.. as though the speaker just had to get rid of that extra bit of air, and vocalize it. Dont run into nobody! (a parent to a child) The fact of the matter is that the matter is not predicated upon fact, that its merely opinion or rumor, and that a huge majority of the time its from a political pundit whos paid by the broadcast network to establish a strawman argument to knock down the entire position of the other political pundits (not paid by the network). Nails on a chalkboard to me. FIGURATIVELY no one? I am now annoyed by the nasal and elongated pronunciation of me, voiced by women. Im only 40 but I feel like a rambling old person yelling at the TV any time I watch it. The staccato, fry voices makes me hit the mute button. In the series Heartland, it is practically half of the dialog. This is why I refuse to hire young people! Socially, or even professionally, person to person, I dont let them bother me too much. Sadly, we all need to bite our tongues. (Or should be). There are some new kids on the block this year: In these trying times. If I hear this on TV I change the channel. Like, what about the kids, like mostly girls, that like say the word like, like every other word. Yet literally all of my female colleagues get constant criticism for how they speak or sound" He told me, except for two pronunciation corrections, he has never received a complaint about his voice or speaking manner even though, by his assessment, he uses "like" and "um" just as much as the women on the NPR Politics Podcast. (ex. Feel free to share in the comments! Playin, doin, shopping, talkin, and just today consultin. Thank gawd to learn Im not the only one who bitches about these assaults on English. my grammar and punctuation was intended as sarcasm but the rest was serious. You might hear the rich baritone of Bob Edwards. Heres another verbal habit thats annoyed me to the point of pounding the wall. I understand some countries use to instead of from, and I dont know if thats longstanding or new. Every generation has its own trends, and thats natural, but this trend is spreading and sticking. And another one is annudder (another). Ive seen talking heads on cable news panels do this ad-nauseum. Sheesh. Do you experience this as an interviewer? Okayone more and Im done. Thanks for any suggestions. OH YES! You can shream ashuss g t v. The 2021 Dream Home is looking good and wanting you to win it. Having a predilection for languages & words, combined with being a professional presenter for most of life, my ear is sensitive to all uses of phrasology; blue, high tone, trends, slang, group ID, annoying & more. There's still debate in the medical community about whether vocal fry harms the vocal folds, but Hansen said it can stress them. An awful conversational bridge. Just like everyone else, sometimes reporters need a moment to collect their thoughts. You asked your readers what we would like for you to include in your next video. As Ted brought up a few posts up: the ubiquitous use of the words sort of by media drives me nuts! document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Debbie Grattan is a top-rated professional female voice over talent with more than 25 years of experience delivering voice over services worldwide. Now that Im working remotely full-time, I have become actually aware of the speech patterns of the people I work with! She, indeed, speaks in a style you typically don't hear on serious news channels which NPR is special for . Try listing the garnishes you can add to a hamburger ( tomato, lettuce, onion, etc ) without going up in pitch with each word. Im reading this because I am driven to distraction now that my husband has started constantly dropping the g from words ending in ing. How can there or here not be ON the ground, if it is, ON the ground. Someone mentioned literally here and now that I think of it that one annoys me when I hear the younger members of the family use it, as well as actually. Young women of all nationalities reporting from the most secluded parts of the world use these odd tones, rhythms and inflections. Ive get so annoyed when people do that!! After Sanders and his panelists discussed a mysterious case of American diplomats in Cuba suffering from a possibly psychosomatic illness, listeners wrote that his tone had been too light-hearted for a serious subject. 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. HI Joan, "It's so quintessential to his delivery." Youre not crotchety. ago Agree, I have shuddered more than once when she consistently uses mildly incorrect grammar. watch a MOvie, read a BOok, eat a COOkie, Ooops! I recently discovered cursive writing has been dropped, so do schools no longer teach how to construct a sentence? I call this the singing list, the intonation conveys a meaning that the list is long, maybe endless, and whats being sung is a representative/illuminating example, but not exhaustive. They rise the inflection of the words at the end of every sentence. Listen out for it ; itll shock you just how common it is! Did you see that? "They can feel more comfortable, confident and relaxed, because they feel like they have command of this instrument and their performance," said Hansen. She likened speaking into a microphone to a "performance that should be as authentic as possible.". Pointing this out to friends, Im usually answered by yeah, I noticed, or good old-fashioned shrugs. The problem is is that.. 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. I mean, where did this one come from anyway? And they do it a lot. Hearing fingernails down a blackboard couldnt be more excruciating than vocal fry, and the stress I experience when not being able to tell the person doing it to stop it is hard to deal with. Unlike appearing simply one of the collective in using URGE, ENCOURAGE and SUGGEST which is a translation in beta male language, because we hate patriarchies, especially white ones, we can with ABSOLUTELY step past that level of making an indicator by laying the hammer on the anvil. New to me and I have grandchildren ranging from preschoolers to early 20s are the following: Ending a sentence with soyeah. Which is quite frankly one of the more annoying habits. Fly them in and leave them in the outback. Agreed, Paula. 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. But then apparently its me whos the grumpy old man with a problem, when I correct my kids in their use of basic English grammar. The pervasive use of hypophora, mostly in spoken media, is more than annoying to me! And look, weyak, yak, yak.. I watch a lot of YouTube news videos and even a simple yes/no question is nearly always answered by starting with So, I mean.. Even in filipino words like palapag theyll say palapag-gah'the gah sounds like when you pronounce the letter G. They do this do the last letter of the last word of the their sentence. I can focus and absorb what they are saying so much more easily. And please stop using hangin out and you guys.. Thuh, preceding a word starting with a vowel! Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. It really annoys me when people are speaking in clear English and then when its time foe them to refer to a foreign culture such as Latinos they cant just say Latinos like we do in English but they have to HEAVILY saturate their pronunciation so they can prove that they are almost (or actually) bilingual. 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. I also cannot stand everyone using the word Amazing to describe everything that is good. Thanks for confirming that its a new thing. Someone has to take responsibility for the slaughter of the Queens English. That means some listeners have to adjust to new sounds. I agree with Angela Brookman, above, in her complaint about people now refusing to pronounce the T sound in words (Im told the phenomenon has a name: T-glottalization), though I take issue with her examples, clarity and poverty. What drives me up a wall is when young people and that is who is doing this now drop the T sound in the middle of a word, such as kitten. They say kih-uhn. And mitten is mih-uhn, and written is wrih-uhn, and so forth. I find that more often there is not an understanding of why this might be appropriate, especially by my younger students & family members. I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. She pointed out that Ira Glass, the host of This American Life who has an iconic radio voice, uses a lot of vocal fry. The kids were GRADED on handwriting in their report cards, and it was considered an important skill. A speech pattern where every word is delivered with careful measure and staccato pauses, as if every thought being expressed is incredibly complex? Now that Im working remotely full-time, I have become acutely aware of speech patterns of the people I work with! Basically, many people, young people and more often women, will take a short vowel sound and make it a schwa sound ie. At least enough to curb your own use (and maybe the usage by your kids, spouse and/or significant other). Yep, that's right. But when used in television, radio, or print, I boil uncontrollably. Lately, I have noticed by newscasters and others on TV the word expecially, which of course does not exist. Pretending to be an annoying, loud, meowing cat will place the voice right up front. You know, the best way to find out the answers is to just Google it.. The one Im most sick of hearing and seeing is OMG.its not only extremely annoying and offensive, it makes the person using this abbreviation seem ignorant, unintelligent and immature, but it also happens to be highly blasphemous. NOW, I substitute. They are also signaling their frustration that they cannot complete their thoughts. The vocal twerk I hear in men (mostly) is Listenfeels like a subtle form of bullying. In 2015, Chenjerai Kumanyika, a radio journalist and professor, published an essay on Transom.org that sparked a conversation about race and public radio. Great people, but, my goodness, that is a difficult accent for me. Often theyll be a so tacked on to the start. These are just regional inflections, not errors per se. The bulk of revenues coming from programming fees, grants from foundations or business entities, contributions and sponsor-ships. Ive forgone many a great podcast topic due to vocal fry or overuse of right. (Said in a condescending nerd voice: So. Maybe it is that when I hear those tones I think Im about to be bitten. Hahaha Russell you are SPOT on! Filed Under: Fun Stuff Tagged With: Featured, patterns, speech, voice over style. E.g. I mean, how did people even get through the day before the internet was invented! But yes now every venture capitalist, techie and aspiring TED talker has a pseudo-self-effacing way of speaking using right and sort ofsoooooo annoying! My purpose in searching phrases that led me here was the very annoying yeah, no or visa versa. Finally, the other habit that seems to be spreading is the use of the schwamostly women but not exclusivelyperhaps the thought is that it makes them seem more cultured. Yeah, no. Initially I read your comment as a knock on the Canadian pronunciation of sorry. That drives me INSANE!!!! Theres a woman at my healthcare providers office who uses upspeak constantly. 1 the misuse of I A year ago I started a list of new words and phrases starting to appear in last 20 years. The way peoplearenowpurposely talking slow as though everyone theyre speaking to is a moron? Awesome and absolutely. ta instead of to NPR must be making a conscious decision to allow all of this. The word than demands a comparison of degrees, e.g., something is hotter/louder/more annoying than something else. This cymbal sound bite, arent event how a professional drummer would play, or maybe would not immediately make this sound unless the cymbals were damaged somehow. What's a listener to do when they hear a voice that they don't like? Jackie Fortir is a healthcare reporter for StateImpact Oklahoma and part of the NPR-Kaiser Health News partnership. Is this the new trend? I hear these daily with the younger crowd at work, and it has become an epidemic, catching on with even older folks. 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. airlines. The worst speech pattern for me is when the speaker put strong emphasis on many words in the same sentence, for example: But this pattern is now very diffuse, especially for people who do speeches, they think that putting a strong emphasis on each words makes their speech more powerful, while in reality it just dilutes the effect because now most words are pronunced with emphasis. I tried to ignore it, but as its about an hour show, ten minutes in, he says this word numerous times. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Bring Debbie the details of your next commercial, narration, phone system recording or other voiceover project. Just on the cursive I used to teach my 5th and 6th graders cursive writing for at least 30 minutes a day. I find it close to impossible to think that these sounds are solely mimicry. Also, some news reporters will pepper their stories with obviously. One of the most irritating forms of up talk or vocal fry is when a woman is explaining her day and each sentence is drawn out at the end with an upward inflection, then the next sentence is hooked on at the end with the same down to up trajectory and drawing out the last word to crescendo. Who started this Have a good one! trend anyway? 5) substituting Im here like or Hes here like for I said or he said. May I direct my fellow annoyed speech watchers to a major culprit leading to these speech patterns? Ive been listening to a lot of podcasts lately and obviously, most of them have commercials. Also, old hardly known by an average individual, words, which are being now widely used. The millions of people who comprise society absolutely do not need to adapt to the annoying speech patterns of an entitled few. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Thank you for your comment! context or discernible link to the discussion. Linguists usually refer to it as creaky voice. So creaking is a reasonable thing to call it. Yes, no, blah blah blah. NPR is moving announcer Sabrina Farhi out of her "primary" role reading its sponsorship credits, according to an email to member stations. You guys seems to be winning in the USA, so if it bothers you, Im afraid youre out of luck. Once you learn a second language its hard to speak it incorrectly. The So at the beginning of every answer to a question, the Vocal Fry, the Upspeak all irritate me beyond all measure. But its also absolutely true. 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 Its pervasive with men and women. It has an r in it (two , to be pendantic) and I am not a child. Very annoying habit for a smart lady!! It sounds so phony . Keith Woods, NPR's vice president of newsroom training and diversity, told me that a variety of voices is one way to achieve greater journalistic truth. If, however, its something that is correctable, I would like to know how, (NOT to be more pleasing or acceptible to him), so that I might be less annoying to more diplomatic persons like yourself . I feel compelled to add an educational commentary on the definition of music when out in public. It is not good representation of the general population; especially the show where it is only women who have the speech impediments. You can even mix them all together in infinite combinations: Right, so you know the best way to find out answers is to Google it, right? Our and Hour is pronounced and sounds the same. I use both in different contexts. Theres no k sound in the word, yet many people want to pronounce it as though there is. This usually entails drawn out words: Sooosomething reeeaally horrrribllllle happened todaaayyyy I broke my cat candlllllle.. (Pout face). Is there a name for this type of speaking? He transcribed what she had said, changed the text color of "a few errors" to red, and suggested his own improvements in green brackets. Anywho.. What is it called when people stress the end of the last few words of a sentence as if they are using. Person 1: So what is your opinion on adding cream to this dessert? 4) adding definately before every verb To me, that sounds idiotic and uppity, not to mention the hyper pronunciation. would. Most of us know the way we speak may change depending what social situation were in. hide caption. Just observant. Im wondering if there is a name for a pattern Im noticing when people start listing bullet point details. Argh!!! . Not only I improperly placed but me used at the start of a phrase. Ultimately, I realized that it is deeply right to have many different voices reporting on the powerful.". Duffin said voice critiques don't bother her personally but that she worries they limit who feels welcome on the air. Kind of (or sort of) This tidbit is used anywhere in the middle, as a way to not say what you really mean. Yet its undocumented. This may be better: It seems all females under age 35 speak this way. My spine is more aligned?. I know which zoo program youre referring to and I cant watch it either. Change out. Hi Gina thanks for your response here. The 10th Ammendment says differently. Women who speak this way remind me of the ghosts in the movie, The Grudge.. Such as certain ,they no longer pronounce the t. Also umm, like, and ya know interspersed in many informal AND formal conversations. And that show was probably a 5 year old rerun. I was seriously annoyed . I also see an affectation of a stammer, emphasizing the last syllable of a word, of a sentence, the totally unnecessary use of and so, after starting with the ubiquitous So, and repetition of statements as if the listener is an imbecile. I see it in newscasts all the time being used by educated people. To me, it sounds like theyve actually forgotten to end the word and let that final syllable continue to sound out for an extended period. The latest speech fad that I am noticing a lot, here in the UK, in presenters on the radio, interviews, everywhere in fact, with seemingly well educated people, is that they are suddenly starting to drop their Ts in the middle of words-poveree(poverty) clariee(clarity) etc theyre all doing it. I thought that I was the only person who had picked up on the stuDENT pronunciation. Also annoying is the fake lisp of many young-ish women trying to copy Emma Stone, assuming her lisp is real not sure. Its like an italian accent, but not that exactly cuz i can resist the italian english accent, but not this habit my friends do cuz i know theyre not italian. Quick, before you faint! I find it so distracting that I dont hear what theyre saying anymore, and thats not good. Amongst a lot of youre vocabulary mistakes is one that makes me sick, the yank way of saying, mirror, they say Mirrrrr. Listen to Dr. Blassey Ford. And please read through the comments for some very interesting insights and observations from other readers. So is a completely disingenuous and idiot transfer. 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. UGH!!! Right!? Though Sanders, of It's Been a Minute, has heard from listeners that he and his panelists use "like" too much, he thinks it's indicative of a good conversation. You forgot the most annoying example of all: that of swallowing the t Im the middle of a word, together with a glottal stop. right? Its not just insincere, its rude, as if theyre annoyed at having to say it. For example, a word with almost any vowel (most commonly an a) is pronounced, instead of with the actual long or short vowel sound for that letter, with a somewhat nasal awww ie the schwa. 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. My fifteen year old son frequently accuses me of picking on him for the way he speaks/writes. I just wanna know whats the reason behind it so i can try to stop being annoyed hahaha. They even create elaborate spoofs, like this send-up of the "annoying" podcast voice. On a personal note, being, English , that is to say, we invented English, therefore, regardless of colour, creed, religion. For example: These are commentators, announcers, and reporters!! It hurts my ears! Uggh! The best example is stuDENT. She has studied Alexander, Linklater, LeCoq, Stanislawski, Michael Chekhov, Meisner, Roy Hart, Suzuki, Viewpoints, and many other acting, voice, and movement techniques. Oh brother, Frankie! Many shop assistants think they are being kind referring to me as Sweetheart or Hun. Are you listening to me? YESSSS!,,,,,, the staccato speech is driving me away from tv. Lets take a selfie of you and I. I could go no for ages but two of them fucked my life up, so I hate them all. Using it as a string of bullet points makes the writer sound illiterate. Then on the other extreme we have ABSOLUTELY. Music is music. The t sound is there; the enunciation is just very soft, almost swallowed, because the word is split into syllables in a different place than whats proper. While I agree that its a lazy way of speaking, its probably more a regional speech pattern than anything else. thats Mineah! No. Ugh! A major part of the Biden plan is to sort of prioritize pandemic assistance. 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. Im a Southerner but I absolutely hate it. And so, yeah. But among friends all the time. And also SORREY, instead of saying sorry Some time around the late 90s, early 2000s, it was taken off the graded subjects. I dont know how these people get voice over jobs and why anyone would use them. Thanks for your comment! I agree. 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. Not sure. Thank you Baz for this eloquently written commentary. Auto-formatting removed the numerous spaces between the words in my last sentence, rendering the example less than illustrative. Politicians and reporters insist on saying Look before spewing a profound statement. What about the other inflection/tone people use now when they list things out? Great job! Like yourself, Im thinking its a trend. Why diminish that by lowering our standards for education and employment? Alternatively, or also, it could be an attempt to inject artificial emphasis to Every.Single.Word. This is a huge trend on YouTube right now and its quite annoying. What is the affectation where the speaker draws out the end of every sentence as if theyve just ran out of breath, but still want to get that last word out. A proper use example is: Parenting is an awesome responsibility. After she appeared live on Morning Edition for the first time, she received a detailed email from a listener, urging her to stop using filler words. What is this called? This one has been around for ages but, you know, its been given new life with a new use you cant help but constantly hear if you listen for it. I mean, they really drew it out. I hear it all of the time especially as I live in a very affluent, lily white area. I often hear young women in their 20-40s, speak in a monotone for a few words and then raise the pitch to a a bit higher monotone level for a few words before ending sentence. The latter pronunciations of each drive me nuts. Thanks Ava for your note. The ending gah sound, as in reading-gah drives me nuts. Speaking as an African American woman, if being more inclusive is the aim it fails. 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. This seems to be a dialect issue primarily in the U.S. South, but the writing implement pen is pronounced pin, as the number ten is pronounced tin!. 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