I dont have any neck pain? Its like they are trying to sound like babies so they are less threatening. Now its bad enough that nine times out of ten, the politician decides to answer some other question that (s)he deems more appealing. Politicians and reporters insist on saying Look before spewing a profound statement. We all must remember to keep our minds sharp and active. Now that youve become painfully aware of my top five annoying speech patterns, please share your ownspeech pattern pet peeves. We all have a few annoying speech/writing habits.). I have noticed a new one in speech and texts with 30 yr and younger females benefit, I wish to now address your repeated use of the term so These hip speech patterns are used by women in, I would say 90% of the conversations Im involved with or hearing out in public. 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. Just observant. Do you see the bu**un? The number one ear-bleeding one is shtraight down the shtreet there are theesh trees and a shtop shign. type in this format, it. That means some listeners have to adjust to new sounds. )and the latest affliction.WaitWHAT ??. Duffin, of Planet Money, said that when she's recording she tries to sound like "a more listenable, polished version" of herself. I commonly hear comferble, tempature, and Febooairy. I hear these daily with the younger crowd at work, and it has become an epidemic, catching on with even older folks. I didnt read all the comments, so my apologies if this was already mentioned. thanks Rebecca for chiming in with your comment from your perspective as an educator/coach. What brought me here was the irritating way young females pronounce thank you. 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. Speaking to Terry Gross on Fresh Air, linguist Penny Eckert described a preliminary study she conducted that asked participants to listen to two clips one with creak and one without. I find this is a topic worth discussing in a public forum, not to berate anyone for their colloquial style of speaking, but to intelligently address the issues with poor speech. I found this article looking for answer to that question. She, indeed, speaks in a style you typically don't hear on serious news channels which NPR is special for . It wasnt just that the election campaign this year was ugly, right? It is not as if we do not live above the ground. Credibility goes out the window. How about pandimik (apparently meaning pandemic,) mimber (apparently meaning member,) and oh god, space (apparently derived from safe space). Real News Host; Also, many of our viewers are likely wondering what I agree with many of the annoying speech discussed here. I have to smile when reading, as I am also of an age, and profession, where language skills, word choice, and vocal delivery are so important. and our thas instead of thats (which is the abbreviation for that is) Try listing the garnishes you can add to a hamburger ( tomato, lettuce, onion, etc ) without going up in pitch with each word. This past year has seemed a bit empty at times when social isolation has become the new normal. 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. Personally, I have a laundry list of poor speech and grammar pet peeves. The letters arent required to be immediately next to each other, as in hiSHtoRy, either. Garage soft zzz, not hard J at end. I have heard several other women speak this way and it grates on my nerves. I would be happy to hear the word amazing without the word super in front of it. As in: Reporter: Do you favor wearing masks in public to help slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2? Brits will say Sorrey, and Americans will say sorry. And, forward, in all forms unless someone is moving or driving an object ahead of them. 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. This is a great discussion! Linguists usually refer to it as creaky voice. So creaking is a reasonable thing to call it. The difference in their abilities to communicate well, resolve conflicts, and reach desired goals with less confusion is notable. My biggest pet peeve is, still, the overuse of like. is a problem. Charlotte, dropping the g has been around since I was a young teen, in the early 70s. You might hear the rich baritone of Bob Edwards. Its a strange phenomenon in my mind, but of course trends come and go. She also created and hosted two seasons of Lean & Hungry's award-winning podcast. Arent there any metrics showing that people fast forward when they come on? Argh!!! None of these up-and-coming phrases ever appear in scripts that I read for actual voice-over jobs or auditions. Do you experience this as an interviewer? AND.. hitting the G in words too hard I.E. Of course, once he shared them with me,I started hearing them, too. And so, yeah. I want the people representing my company to be PROFESSIONAL. (Said in a condescending nerd voice: So. Thank gawd to learn Im not the only one who bitches about these assaults on English. Him: Im like did you see that? She doesn't mind sounding human. This post & comments are fun because though annoying is a subjective quality, some of these patterns & phrasing are widely undesirable. If youve ever heard Jedediah Vila, she does it ALL the time. Seems to be a constant request for recognitionas if we somehow cant stop to ask if we dont understand something. Ive had to stop watching MSNBC, because Rachel Maddow lards her hour with the use of right. Worse is Chris Hayes, who doesnt even use right properly! Its EVERYWHERE on tv, the news reporters and movies. And, like uptalk, it seems to be used predominantly by female speakers. An improper use is saying that everything that you feel is great, is awesome. May I direct my fellow annoyed speech watchers to a major culprit leading to these speech patterns? and radio. I find that contrary to the quality of education that many of us older folks received. Oh, and yes, I know I left off many other annoying speech patterns. Its easy to overlook poor speech when an attractive face is delivering the information. Help. I suppose if the heart is in the right place, we can forgive some of these transgressions of speech. 2 the addition of ing to verbs 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. Yes her voice was tough to take but once you realized what she went through.well fuck. We can expect the children of millennials to pass annoying speech patterns on to their children. "It's so quintessential to his delivery." Soooooo, its bad enough when girls speak that way but, when a guy does it, I know were in trouble. And who started everything being super??? Even politics reporter Detrow, who doesn't hear from listeners about his voice, said he evaluates his own interviews. I also dislike the replacement of youre welcome with no problem when told thank you. When I purchase something from an employee, or tell someone thank you, Im not needing assurance that Im not a problem. Speech patterns seem to trend quite quickly. Maybe its our television sets audio, but I wonder why womens vowels are so loud on news programs. And another one is annudder (another). Very annoying habit for a smart lady!! It applies to what the kids call music these days as well. A proper use example is: Parenting is an awesome responsibility. Also, ahhhhh, ahhhhhhh when they see a puppy or baby or receive a gift, etc. its so not fairah!!. If someone speaks in numbered bullet points, such as, Firstly_____, and second then they wish to sound more educated than they are. There are many more I could come up with, but tedious at the moment. The young woman interviewing them had the most annoying high pitched upspeak that I could not continue, and when I read the comments, many people commented on how annoying the so-called journalist was. Correspondents are starting to do it. 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). HI Joan, Please share more comments on this, and specifically what other patterns youd like to see us include in the next video. 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 ? Theres another pronunciation of words that drive me to distractionor in this case I should say diSHtraction. I have noticed lately female newscasters seemingly trying to avoid monotony by raising then lowering the pitch of the last syllable in a sentence. The staccato, infantile voices of the most cultured, educated, experienced, expert young women must have some scientific basis. The use of You know what? just before every seemingly unrevealing statement is huge in Australian parlance, um well at least in Melbourne. Ive heard this a lot in the mid-Atlantic states, but lately its infested patterns of speech throughout the United Stateshow about Canada? Have a listen how many times you hear ABSOLUTELY on the tv. 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! Just like everyone else, sometimes reporters need a moment to collect their thoughts. I have to bite my tongue and let off steam when I hear Australians speak. So, like, gag me with a spoon, you know? I wonder if there is a name for this yet? Not up-talk exactly, as in ending every sentence as if it were a question, but more when people are listing things that are maybe a little tedious. I get far more hung up on language misuse, though. There is a good example of a migraine remedy commercial intoned by Khloe Kardashian. But, these trends are needed- If they didnt happen we would still be saying things like Where Art Thou?. 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.. Vocal fry refers to a low, glottal, animal-like sound that speech pathologists consider a vocal disorder. Ive noticed an increase in the pronunciation of to as tyoo but it seems more frequent when the speakerthey seem to be mostly femaleelongates the word, perhaps suggesting that its said when the speaker is having a moment of reflection or being pensive; that it is becoming universal on television news and commentary is undeniableand is becoming an annoyance, These are probably the same girls that used to (or possibly still do ) say things like stop itah!! Please. I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. Stop adding, subtracting, and manipulating language to influence or control the listener. Grammatical mistakes are less annoying, but still problematic. 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. It seems all females under age 35 speak this way. Yet literally all of my female colleagues get constant criticism for how they speak or sound. In another, speakers with vocal fry received more votes in a hypothetical election. So, after reading literally every single comment, I am pondering the question; is it ironic that were all complaining about an enormous range of vocal variants (or variations?) Eleanor Beardsley, and other unique female radio voices. Most annoying speech pattern of the decade? The other tying vote is dropping the t, as stated above or over pronouncing the t to make up for the cur-an, moun-an folk. 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. And everything is an experience this is a great millennial buzzword. "We ought to be able to hear all of that in the voices that the audience is hearing, whether that voice is the voice of somebody in a community somewhere in the middle of the country or that voice is the voice of a host or reporter for NPR. Using it as a string of bullet points makes the writer sound illiterate. The other annoyance is when someone announces this is a problem as this? after. EVERY FRICKIN interview has yeah yeah yeah!, more and more in the past 6 or so months. Why? All the best to you in navigating our wonderful world of words! They are also signaling their frustration that they cannot complete their thoughts. My goodness! Different than makes no sense. Those experiences felt like subtle whitewashing of his voice. Isnt it enough that we can send a message in an instant without having to wait for a cursive written letter to arrive in weeks, but make it even faster with short cut spelling to arrive in a matter of seconds? Vocal fry irritates the hell out of me! So is a completely disingenuous and idiot transfer. I think that the person doing it wants to signal that they would have more to say about a thing but they really do not have any more ammunition. Thank you for your comment! Sounds unnatural. 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. Sadly, I dont think these trend will die out. One thing that bothers me is when people pronounce the word ancient as ankshent. Is this the new trend? Important..pronounced Im-por-ent. Sounds like a 2 year old learning to speak. In 2015, Chenjerai Kumanyika, a radio journalist and professor, published an essay on Transom.org that sparked a conversation about race and public radio. That happened to Mike Cooper, a voice-over artist who recently stumbled upon his voice being used without his knowledge for AI. Such as: NO-aahh!, STOP-aahh! Formerly worst voice was Diane Rehm. If I had my way all of the above media types would be banned outright at home, in school and in the workplace, as all of it makes me want to puke. A lazy speech habit that grates on my nerves is the use of Also too. I think its rather sad. ) 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. This is teh dropping of the letter g at the end of ing words, ie: singin goin droppin etc. I would never have understood your point until I saw a commercial during which a delighted homeowner, commenting on a home makeover, said (the most overused word in English as) amazinggah!. Filler words mean people are thinking in the moment, he added. What about the other inflection/tone people use now when they list things out? I mean This completely unnecessary phrase seems to just be a habitual way to start sentences for many people. 3 length vs. lenth, H (long a and ch) vs. (long a and shuss), streaming vs. shreaming. Noticably used televangelist pastors and political speeches. Not sure. thank you again for such a thoughtful response. My spine is more aligned?. Theres a name for it, but I cant remember what its called. Sorry for the typo of the when it should have been they. They're actually choosing their path and doing the steering.". 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