The author ends a sentence that I assume was not a quote of someone else, with these words; AMEN. No-uh. Listening to our local news reporters causes so much stress! Really finished yet?). People use Right? as a complete sentence. We drink when we hear Emily Bazelon and her cronies say ta on the Political Gabfest. A sentence in which one says nothing: I knooow! The young woman in the commercial exclaimed, Its Dove-ah! Now I notice it all the time. I agree. I agree with many of the annoying speech discussed here. Not sure what thats called, maybe we should invent a name for it . YESSSS!,,,,,, the staccato speech is driving me away from tv. Aural homogeneity discourages listeners and future radio-makers who don't fit the mold. Quick, before you faint! I find it so distracting that I dont hear what theyre saying anymore, and thats not good. 3) but think back to TV shows or movies from the 1950s or 1940s, the Trans Atlantic accent and men sounding like radio show hosts. If I hear this on TV I change the channel. Is it the c thats throwing them, or are they getting it confused with the word anxious? And then those styles get copied and go viral and pretty soon you hear it everywhere. A lazy speech habit that grates on my nerves is the use of Also too. It seems to me that the average persons way of communicating has become more casual in professional situations because it has become taboo to correct others in academic settings. (Thats okay, Verla. There are some new kids on the block this year: In these trying times. If I hear this on TV I change the channel. Filler words mean people are thinking in the moment, he added. One study found that young women with vocal fry were perceived as less competent and trustworthy. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts on this subject. And look, weyak, yak, yak.. Its refreshing to hear someone else with similar tendencies, calling out the younger generation on so many of these types of habits, which, in effect, butcher the language and the beauty of its intended delivery. Last week, Slate Lexicon Valley podcaster (and NPR On the Media host) Bob Garfield lamented a frightening tic invading American speech. The vocal pattern that annoys me endlessly is when women talk like little girls when they add UH to the end of words. Thank you Baz for this eloquently written commentary. Is this the new trend? Such as certain ,they no longer pronounce the t. I have worked as a journalist for over 25 years, and I do not work in television for a reason. 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. These kids are expected to go out in the real world and magically transform into people they were once never expected to be. Drives me nuts. There are plenty of valid points to be made about the speech patterns here, but how many of these comments boil down to, I hate this regional / demographic lingual trend because I cant relate to it ? FIGURATIVELY no one? If we could get the Australians to leave home we could return the island to its original (European) use. I feel more rested? Im like my husband uses it for every single thing. I also get extremely annoyed by these vocal crutch words so Im glad Im not the only who experiences this! No, you are hearing maybe a regional pronunciation. For example, when they pronounce the word eight they say eigh-tah just pronouncing the last letter. ish instead of pronouncing it as iz. Is it to have a snippet of time before responding? 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. It is irritating. The voices on NPR are more diverse than ever. The Up-and-Coming Most Annoying Speech Patterns 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. Yes!! Its just a dialect difference. I am dropping the mike now. Your observations are wonderful & interesting. I have taught communication for three decades and address all of these practices with success in helping my young adult students understand how to code switch between casual and more business contexts. Vocal fry irritates the hell out of me! 5) substituting Im here like or Hes here like for I said or he said. I mean, everyone has heard plenty of examples of those speech patterns that have made perfectly well-educated college grads (mostly female) sound like Kardashian wannabes. 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. No. Over his 10 years at NPR, he said he has grown emotionally to trust that his voice is enough. These are commentators, announcers, and reporters!! One from Texas wrote: "Not all Americans sound like White American politicians and I wish that could be reflected on your airwaves.". Dont do that-ah! Its so annoying-gah!. On those rare occasions when I hear an interview with someone who is profoundly lacking all of these five patterns, it is such a breath of fresh air! 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. If I were grading you, your report would get, at best, a C-," the listener from Missouri concluded. SO NECESSARY! Someone above grits their teeth at Americans and Brits speaking. The biggest for me, though, is the epidemic vocal fry combined with a high-pitched voice, or sexy baby speak, among the majority of women, and many men now (Ira Glass, Im looking at you). Maybe its the microphones? Uptalk at ?s. Yes, no, blah blah blah. .ANY Mouth smacking, Ttt or Tsk between every phrase, or hearing saliva sounds !!! its there, though much less pronounced (sic.). My Wife just rolls her eyes and says get a life lol. Simply put, the standards for on-air positions were much higher when I entered the workforce: speaking well was imperative, but not nearly as important as having television looks. Even the show's reviews on iTunes are full of complaints about the voices of the hosts, both of whom are women, especially their vocal fry. Part Two: Here Comes AI, Is the Golden Age of Voice Over Gone? In another, speakers with vocal fry received more votes in a hypothetical election. I even heard some say go away-aahh or similar uses. And, like a highly contagious virus, it is possible that by simply reading this post, you too will become afflicted! I'm happy to have a variety of voices on NPR, but they shouldn't include those that are annoyingly shrill or are using incorrect grammar. Please, lets stop hiring these dudes who are stuck in their own head trying to sound and trick us believing they are something they are not. Thank you, Debbie! Have you got any money, at all. EVERY FRICKIN interview has yeah yeah yeah!, more and more in the past 6 or so months. to gain your insight on this phenomenon. Drives me crazy every time. As in change the sheets or change a lightbulb. Ive been trying to figure out the speech pattern of an acquaintance its causing me irritation and anxiety. This collection would be much funnier if the written intro didnt include a sentence beginning I mean They were you know, I mean, and I mean like. Alternatively, or also, it could be an attempt to inject artificial emphasis to Every.Single.Word. Garage soft zzz, not hard J at end. My spine is more aligned?. I heard one person this past weekend start literally every response with, Look. As in, Yo, Im tellin you, shtraight up, this thing is yuge, aight?, Yes, no I dont like all of those bad habits either AND the inverse No, yes we should all be aware these speech patterns are happening increasingly.. Auto-formatting removed the numerous spaces between the words in my last sentence, rendering the example less than illustrative. My friends who do these habits, they do this not just in english language, but also in our native language. She creaked so much that I literally couldnt understand a word she was saying. 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. He transcribed what she had said, changed the text color of "a few errors" to red, and suggested his own improvements in green brackets. That holds true for the sources NPR interviews on the air, just as it does for the voices of correspondents and hosts. None of these up-and-coming phrases ever appear in scripts that I read for actual voice-over jobs or auditions. I think females tend to do this more often and more dramatically. ta instead of to Where did that come from?? context or discernible link to the discussion. Trying to describe some of these patterns is difficult, so examples would be very helpful! 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. I first noticed this in the TV series Unforgotten where it is hugely noticeable, but seeing earlier performances in the TV series Spooks from a number of years before, I see (hear!) every word. Ive noticed that, too. Tomorrow WILL be a hot day or I mean, how did people even get through the day before the internet was invented! And I give a slight nod to the d in Wednesday. Now that Im working remotely full-time, I have become actually aware of the speech patterns of the people I work with! It totally baffles me. The difference in their abilities to communicate well, resolve conflicts, and reach desired goals with less confusion is notable. No more of that!!! Noticably used televangelist pastors and political speeches. Yeah, naa, yeah is, similar to the Yeah, nowait, what?. Im glad to discover I am not alone. "If you sound like America, then it's America that's talking. Jackie Fortir is a healthcare reporter for StateImpact Oklahoma and part of the NPR-Kaiser Health News partnership. Another big offender is the reality tv show, e.g. She is one of the favorite voices in the NPR. You are smarter than I am. And also SORREY, instead of saying sorry I didnt read through all of the comments but one I didnt see mentioned is the common trend now, most especially (again) by young to even college aged females adding I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. So. Have I become a crotchety old fart or is Idiocracy truly upon us? I was seriously annoyed . 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. Sucking on the teeth and smackingThis speaker does this , also. My personal pet peeves include the use of right? at the end of every sentence, and the glottal stop (in the U.S., at least; the UK version has never bothered me). The bulk of revenues coming from programming fees, grants from foundations or business entities, contributions and sponsor-ships. More on that idea here. thank you again for such a thoughtful response. Sorry about that, but its the only way to bring awareness to this type of conversational disease in hopes that it can be eradicated very soon. Also on the rise Yah, Yah to express approval, agreement, excitement. She summarized her findings to Gross this way: "Those of us who are bothered by some of these features are probably just getting old.". 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