Its just laziness (and somehow its become cool to sound lazy or bored). Anything you can think of, no matter how tiny and insignificant it may be, can be described as a game changer. I wonder if there is a name for this yet? Its like they are trying to sound like babies so they are less threatening. Its a lisp and something that should have been fixed in grade school. 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? Thanks to ALL recent commenters for reading and sharing your thoughts on this topic. Some words are not meant to have all the letters pronounced. to make it sound as it is so amazing, and all-important. A year ago I started a list of new words and phrases starting to appear in last 20 years. They also do this in Germany, quite memorably. Beyond annoying. 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. The Kardashions, though not typical, offer a great example of many of these trending patterns. I cant stand amazing. 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. I also wonder with all the texting short cuts, have we created a new language? I just do not understand why voice overs must be so impersonal and what the show producer clearly sees as professional or some kind of the standard tone. Ugh! I cant stand people pronouncing words that end ing like the end with een, i.e. I do think it bothers some more than others, and once you key in on ityou hear it all the time, and it becomes more like nails on a chalkboard. Hell start a sentence, but then even before he gets to the part that he wants to bully you into agreeing with, hell stick in a right?! Alison MacAdam April 30, 2015. Credit: Emily Jan. I am finding it increasingly more difficult to watch television, or listen to certain radio broadcasters, due to distracting speech patterns and styles. Its like special effects in cinema: theyre not special anymore if a movie is 90% special effects. is my dog No! November 28, 2016 by Debbie Grattan 307 Comments. Thats the main reason why most adults eventually decide its in their best interests to lose the bad habits. It really became a battle of negative personalities in a race to the bottom of common decency.. And singing involves a Melody AND talent. Why diminish that by lowering our standards for education and employment? Correspondent Carrie Johnson came to NPR in 2010, after a long career in print. 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. There's still debate in the medical community about whether vocal fry harms the vocal folds, but Hansen said it can stress them. Hahaha Russell you are SPOT on! Also the use of words kiddo and doggo. Paige, Socially, or even professionally, person to person, I dont let them bother me too much. If we could get the Australians to leave home we could return the island to its original (European) use. Or is this merely habit? the talking heads are using these words in such sort of ridiculous ways that they make whatever theyre saying sound kind of foolish. To those of you who are staying up to date with these comments and following this thread, we just posted a compilation video in this blog. Some of the family members have a better capacity to use words, language & phraseology than others that still use upspeak, vocalfry, text slang & whining. No. One of the reasons the patterns become so widespread, particularly with the current trend of vocal fry, is the feeling of belonging it gives young women. She helps people who find they sound monotone, sing-songy or low-energy. Im low on fuel so Im gonna stop and fill up Fine. Sheesh. I can sense the pits of hell opening within my spirit and anger arising like smoke of an erupting volcano, ahhhhh! Meowing. HI Joan, Watch ANY interview with a woman and they do this. Perhaps Im better not to. It was made popular by chef Gordon Ramsden. Everyone is using that now it seems! This is supposed to be pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable: STUdent. Lets take a selfie of you and I. Its EVERYWHERE on tv, the news reporters and movies. I dont know nothing about that. Kudos. Like any job, radio journalism requires training. And, like a highly contagious virus, it is possible that by simply reading this post, you too will become afflicted! You are smarter than I am. I can focus and absorb what they are saying so much more easily. Hansen coaches voice for NPR, corporate groups, professional theater companies, podcast hosts, journalists, and private clients nationwide. 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.. 1 the misuse of I All are irritating and to me, they pigeon-hole the speaker and come across as less intelligent and less confident than they realize or intend. I guess it works when communication is between persons with a combined vocabulary of less than 100 words, but for everyone else its extremely annoying. Its pervasive with men and women. Is it the c thats throwing them, or are they getting it confused with the word anxious? Maybe its the microphones? Thatsaid when I want to pause, shake my head a little & say Wait, what?. Why should we voice the t in often? would. I hear it on NPR a lot. Now that Im working remotely full-time, I have become acutely aware of speech patterns of the people I work with! Its feels good to know others are as annoyed as I. They are rampant in the South. Because anybody who over pronounces their ts and ss sounds annoying to me. I like to call this Laundry Listing because it is like they are giving you this boring laundry list of things. She has performed in television, film, stage, voiceovers, and commercials. Filed Under: Fun Stuff Tagged With: Featured, patterns, speech, voice over style. (ex. ^ That, I hear all the time (Southern California). Very annoying habit for a smart lady!! Its hard to come up with additional topics, since so many of the biggies were already discussed. 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. She creaked so much that I literally couldnt understand a word she was saying. (Mark Memmott, the standards and practices editor, has addressed some of those issues in the past.). I first heard this on a home decorating tv show. Do you see the bu**un? 'Planet money,' 'This American Life,' 'Radiolab,' 'Startup' Why? 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. Shouldnt voice overs sound like natural speech? thanks for reading and your comment! What game? Its not even super cute. No one says sof-ten or lis-ten or plumb-er. Unfortunately most people dont even notice they have been infected, or they simply dont care, leaving people like me to go crazy. That said, Boston's local morning guy, Bob Oakes, has a legendarily annoying voice. My shopping experiences in the UK have changed since I turned 60 and let my hair go grey. These are commentators, announcers, and reporters!! It is not good representation of the general population; especially the show where it is only women who have the speech impediments. Lately, I have noticed by newscasters and others on TV the word expecially, which of course does not exist. If you pronounce the T (soft or hard) in button, youll get some strange glances, because literally no one here pronounces it that way. Im a Southerner but I absolutely hate it. She also created and hosted two seasons of Lean & Hungry's award-winning podcast. I appreciate your attention to the proper usage of the English, especially since its NOT your native language, and the respect you hold for it. If youve ever heard Jedediah Vila, she does it ALL the time. Literally?! This is only a small portion of the sissification of men that I could rant about but it is the most annoying. What comes to mind when you imagine an "NPR voice"? I realize its really too early to be voting for Most Annoying for 2021, but this ones definitely been frosting my butt. If something is different from something else, from is the only word that works. Like yourself, Im thinking its a trend. 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. Its hit the English language strong in just the past year or so, right? Heres another verbal habit thats annoyed me to the point of pounding the wall. Pretty much everywhere to enunciate the ts in button is not correct. You know what I mean? OH YES! Shes also picked up on all the popular, irritating ways of speaking. I think its rather sad. Voice. While he generally wants to be playful on his show, he said he's since tried to be more sensitive to when subjects require serious delivery. Noticably used televangelist pastors and political speeches. I believe they are taught this mode of delivering content. YES! thanks Rebecca for chiming in with your comment from your perspective as an educator/coach. I also get extremely annoyed by these vocal crutch words so Im glad Im not the only who experiences this! Profeasionally, it comes down to efficiency and economy not to waste talk time with meaningless utterances or distractions. I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. What's a listener to do when they hear a voice that they don't like? ? 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. NPR is moving announcer Sabrina Farhi out of her "primary" role reading its sponsorship credits, according to an email to member stations. As leading lady in Synetic Family Theatre's "The Fisherman and the Golden Fish," she and the cast earned the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Production of Theatre for Young Audiences. Or here in The UK / Ireland, Big Brother, Made in Chelsea to name but a few. Jessica Hansen, one of the voices of NPR's funding credits and its in-house vocal coach, helps reporters hone their voices for air. The So at the beginning of every answer to a question, the Vocal Fry, the Upspeak all irritate me beyond all measure. As in change the sheets or change a lightbulb. That means some listeners have to adjust to new sounds. Im not sure if our primary education system is to blame for not putting enough emphasis on the spoken (or written) word for our younger generations, or whether it is more of a socialization and modeling of behavior that is rampant. If I could type in this format, it would look something like this. Grown men purposely deforming their mouth to speak like a FREAK! Five lines from the bottom, auto correct changed Sanskrit to sandscript. Okayone more and Im done. Perhaps its self-importance driving the habit. In 2015, Chenjerai Kumanyika, a radio journalist and professor, published an essay on Transom.org that sparked a conversation about race and public radio. Ive only been annoyed once by the over use of the word like. A lazy speech habit that grates on my nerves is the use of Also too. YESSSS!,,,,,, the staccato speech is driving me away from tv. I agree though, like the tattoo girl on the Twix commercial that spells NO REGERTS and then says Sawree in that whiny sarcastic voice. Yeah at the beginning of a question that was not yes-or-no. Along with that and many other things mentioned here ive also noticed use of the wrong vowel sounds. 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. While editing a piece, he found himself imagining the words spoken by a more white voice instead of his own. Should school lectures take place on the moon, or just remotely via satellite? A long list of complaints I violently agree with. I have assumed theyre trying to sound British, which may also account for the glottal stop (i think thats the correct term) in words like curtain, mountain, sweeten etc. For example i had a really busy day today.. 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. Thank you so much for validating my comments to my skeptical wife. Stripping is not music. I would agree, that often, any form of critique, even for improvement in future and in business, is often dismissed, misplaced, and scoffed at by a younger generation that has grown up with a trophy for participation for anything they do, and often getting passing grades and remarks to send them on, without actually teaching them how to LEARN and QUESTION things. Thanks for a place to vent. 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