Thank you again for sharing your thoughts on this subject. Stop talking like that!. I understand that enunciation is a part of the job they do, but to over pronounce a word by adding an extra vowel does not sharpen the words; it dulls the wit. Please. Yet its undocumented. 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.. Lisa P. hit the nail on the head. Or adding the wrong vowels to words for instance making the word food sound more like fewd. Instant shutdown. Please dont waste time and effort with a question you immediately answer yourself just jump in and explain the issue and your opinion about it! I came to this thread as I am driven mad by Nicola Walker, the terrific British actress (who I like very much) has this annoying habit of pausing momentarily in the middle of delivering her line in a script. Im British and cant say Ive ever heard anyone say Yes, no to answer a question, so Im pretty sure its not trendy amongst British speakers. One of the speaking annoyances on NPR is the overuse of surea host may say, how does this policy impact the electorate? and the response will inevitably begin with sure! followed by an actual response to the question. My dad was from Canada of English heritage. Small talk usually calls for this kind of language unless youre writing a research paper. I also wonder with all the texting short cuts, have we created a new language? Was the Mike Lindell one, Thats why I curated MyPillow? (Mark Memmott, the standards and practices editor, has addressed some of those issues in the past.). Allison I have to chuckle at your comment, since just last night, while watching one of the football playoff games, my husband was getting quite annoyed at Tony Romos continuous use of the word right? uptick included, while commentating. Basically, many people, young people and more often women, will take a short vowel sound and make it a schwa sound ie. We receive a regular stream of complaints about how reporters and hosts talk on air. Politicians and reporters insist on saying Look before spewing a profound statement. The one thats driving me crazy is this extra schwa added to the ends of words. Such as: NO-aahh!, STOP-aahh! First, they sound like they are pedaling up a hill. Agreed, Paula. In our house it is forbidden LOL. People who say: I immediately have to fast forward, which defeats the whole purpose of advertising. Its so common and I cannot believe speakers do NOT hear this on playback?!? Why do major newscasters use the word That so much!?!? 2 the addition of ing to verbs 'Planet money,' 'This American Life,' 'Radiolab,' 'Startup' Why? I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. Are they insecure, manipulative, dishonest, sans capacity for original, independent thought???? 2) I cant stand the making every sentence sound like a question- No, thanks. NPR must be making a conscious decision to allow all of this. The kids were GRADED on handwriting in their report cards, and it was considered an important skill. Ugh! Speaking as an African American woman, if being more inclusive is the aim it fails. 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. My aversion to imbecile-generated sounds has made me reconsider certain career paths. So So, youll also find this one at the beginning of a sentence, namely as a way to manage the conversation and sound fairly authoritative (or condescending). And who started everything being super??? My husband and I both react as though were hearing nails on a chalkboard when people speak as though theyre trying to manipulate us. Yes, I found this site while searching for Stephen Dubner annoying speech pattern. I would rather have my guests say the word "like" a lot or me say the word "like" a lot and have a richer, deeper, better conversation that goes more places than have everyone be buttoned up and stifled as guests and you never hear the word "like.". What I was really searching for is the new pattern that my daughter seems..touse. 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. I growl at it when I hear it. Though, not usually in a professional setting. 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. Our language is being bastardised for their own purpose, throat fry, non-pronunciation, just being annoying. I hear these daily with the younger crowd at work, and it has become an epidemic, catching on with even older folks. Really? She has a distinctively black accent and is a favorite voice on NPR. There are many more I could come up with, but tedious at the moment. But of-ten sets my teeth on edge. You obviously havent heard anyone say super over and over. 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! I hear it a lot among sports commentators and analyzers on tv and radio. She has performed in television, film, stage, voiceovers, and commercials. I cant decide which I detest more- vocal fry or right. We drink when we hear Emily Bazelon and her cronies say ta on the Political Gabfest. Sam Sanders, host of It's Been a Minute, said that learning to write in his own voice was difficult. The internet search yields accusations of objections to this speech as further proof of bias against women. She is best known for her role in the NPR Morning Edition and All Things Considered. I am a bit more forgiving if English isnt your first language but otherwise its incredibly annoying. Heres another verbal habit thats annoyed me to the point of pounding the wall. Why not just be brave and make a direct statement without the sort of timidity? (Thats okay, Verla. 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. Shes in her mid-50s and old enough to know better. She played a pregnant workplace harasser in Coastal Training Technologies' "Drop by Drop," which earned CINE's Special Jury Award. Sounds unnatural. Thank you so much, Debbie and Baz! I work with someone who is very intelligent in general, and very knowledgeable about the subject hes presenting but he has this annoying halting speech pattern. At least we can take comfort knowing that some of these annoying fillers indeed die out eventually. Why isnt anyone saying to anymore? I am so happy that I found this website! very prevalent among high school kids and their teachers. ! Fry here and there. OKIE 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. Why? Youve covered it all, including the Yes, no stupidity. Im wondering if there is a name for a pattern Im noticing when people start listing bullet point details. She has performed in television, film, stage, voiceovers, and commercials. Unfortunately the word, the shouting and the angry demeanor are now used by many standup comedians in place of jokes. Where did that come from?? As in, those are quite some radishes you have there. It seems to be quite common as I hear quite some people using it. Others, over exaggerated, more perfect, funner and many more. Ive noticed the inflection is often followed by movement, such as a slight head tilt, nod, hands, or shift of the eyes, presumably as an emphasis. Ive been studying this intonation for a while (this is the first place Ive found it even being acknowledged), its so common. Out of protest, I might start writing the word out as ta, since that is how people are pronouncing the word. Videos, I get by with closed-caption options, otherwise just NO. This is a huge trend on YouTube right now and its quite annoying. Im like my husband uses it for every single thing. Required fields are marked *. I wonder if its the education system, or perhaps social media or television. Also the northeastern dis, dat, dem and does for this, that, them and those. This is supposed to be pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable: STUdent. EVERY FRICKIN interview has yeah yeah yeah!, more and more in the past 6 or so months. My personal least favorite is Bill Littlefield (Only a Game) for some reason I can't explain. I wonder if there is a name for this yet? She regularly records commercial voice overs for radio and tv as well as infomercial voice overs and direct response marketing for children's toys, health, fitness and beauty products. I wonder if they realize they are doing this? I found this post because I was looking for a video that addresses this. What about the other inflection/tone people use now when they list things out? Annoying and completely unnecessary. It was the most annoying thing I had ever heard. "That's why you listen it's to hear people talk," Fortir said. Sam Sanders, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, records a segment at NPR West on September 24, 2018. It sounds weird and affected. The use of You know what? just before every seemingly unrevealing statement is huge in Australian parlance, um well at least in Melbourne. He joins us. I abhor this glottal stop. She also created and hosted two seasons of Lean & Hungry's award-winning podcast. Please share more comments on this, and specifically what other patterns youd like to see us include in the next video. THANK YOU for this! The problem is is that.. I think its rather sad. and our It makes me terribly sad. Mostly female but males do it too. not pronounce the actual vowel, but rather make it the aaaaah sound. 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. Im curious if this is a West Coast thing with the under 40 set. So is a completely disingenuous and idiot transfer. caused your repeated use of the vague term, space, without a specific I have heard right? at the end of sentences used frequently. Really finished yet?). Sorry, but Im not pronouncing button as butt-ton. Consider Bertie Wooster in the Wodehouse Jeeves stories. (My wife thinks I am. ) I completely agree with the annoying no problem response from a server after saying Thank you. But in between this & because Im bored at home, they do something called a live stream, which I didnt usually watch. I have to wonder if schools still teach sentence diagrams. One person in particular uses a combination of vocal fry (at times), saying so at the end of sentences, using upspeak, AND drawing words out (I guess while thinking of what to say). Though NPR still has work to do on the issue of its newsroom diversity, over the past few years the numbers have been creeping in the right direction. If it tickles, don't back off, you're doing it right! Vocal Frrry One sound that some listeners are still adjusting to is often-called "vocal. Many shop assistants think they are being kind referring to me as Sweetheart or Hun. I believe he is from the Bay Area in California. Your observations are wonderful & interesting. I appreciate its a casual, off the cuff chat with the 2 male hosts (in their late 30s possibly) who are intelligent & one was a teacher in London! Omitting ts from wordsthe one word that brought it to my attention was moun or as we like to refer to it as mountain. or I I I I I I dragged out and finished with uh.. 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. I first noticed it when Joanna Gains talked and now I notice it everywhere. Grown men purposely deforming their mouth to speak like a FREAK! Hansen is a classically trained singer, and has sung with choirs and madrigal groups, in musical theatre, and in jazz and rock bands. What comes to mind when you imagine an "NPR voice"? I am now annoyed by the nasal and elongated pronunciation of me, voiced by women. Listening to our local news reporters causes so much stress! 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. The biggest one that I hear it in is when celebrities say singer. The Public Editor has examined concerns about pronunciation and accents, but for the most part, our office hasn't addressed complaints about how NPR reporters and hosts speak and sound. Uptalk or up speak are newer terms for ARI or Australian Rising Inflection which I am told is where it began. As opposed to what? Another more recent pattern I hear most often by women is speaking in the low register of their voice. It seems to me that in the course of the past couple of years stuDENT has become the preferred usage. (Smirk. 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. Its under the The Up-and-Coming Most Annoying Speech Patterns section. And, forward, in all forms unless someone is moving or driving an object ahead of them. Its mildly disturbing to me. Amongst a lot of youre vocabulary mistakes is one that makes me sick, the yank way of saying, mirror, they say Mirrrrr. Im glad to discover I am not alone. It applies to what the kids call music these days as well. Now I hear that everywhere. In addition, the effective and efficient usage of the words effective and efficient is an effective and efficient means of increasing effective and efficient effectiveness and efficiency. Radio wouldn't have the same energy or be able to cover breaking news if every second was scripted. I dont see nobody there., Double negatives scream, I am uneducated! I once changed my childs preschool because his teacher said, We aint got no time for that. (Aint is another awful one.) How did this start? I thought that I was the only person who had picked up on the stuDENT pronunciation. 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