Filed Under: Fun Stuff Tagged With: Featured, patterns, speech, voice over style. 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. Moving forward, going forward, I turn off the radio. One thing journalists I spoke to said: They're real people and they'd like to sound real too. Dont run into nobody! (a parent to a child) So in the workplace and over the airways, especially on leftist networks the use of ENCOURAGE, SUGGEST and URGE etc etc etc. So what if someone tags right at the end of their sentence? 4. They also make thespeaker sound less intelligent and sometimes even manipulative. 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.. The biggest one that I hear it in is when celebrities say singer. I was actually googling, trying to find if this type of (annoying!) So many people cannot do it. I also cannot stand everyone using the word Amazing to describe everything that is good. I have heard right? at the end of sentences used frequently. For example, presenters who do both on-screen and voice over work in the same programme, often utilise a completely different speech pattern/tone in both contexts. its so not fairah!!. Listeners have concerns about grammar, and filler words such as "um," "like" and "so." And yes they sound condescending. Its a lisp and something that should have been fixed in grade school. I cant get used it but somehow I must figure out how to do it or Ill never be able to chill with my great grand children. Double negatives. If it is so obvious, why is it news? At the end of a sentence? thing (and, as illustrated, often prematurely ending a sentence that actually wasnt? Annoying! Really finished yet?). 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? They are not harmonious. hide caption. I absolutely abhor all of the speech patterns/words described here, however my biggest annoyance when it comes to TV voice overs is how extremely patronising and robotic they often sound. This often occurs when a person (on TV) is explaining the steps to any given process to another person: What Im going to do is, Im going to In 2nd person plural, What were doing is, were going to. This is a great discussion! "When they sit down and open the mic to tell the story, they aren't just hanging on for the ride and hoping that it ends soon. So is a completely disingenuous and idiot transfer. 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! 4) adding definately before every verb Dropping the T is not a girl thing, at least not in the American South. The staccato, fry voices makes me hit the mute button. Thanks for your comment and video. The most recent annoying speech pattern to me is the habit of adding an ah sound to the end of a word. Everyone drops the T here. Great article. Ive heard narrators doing it on youtube videos. Yes her voice was tough to take but once you realized what she went through.well fuck. The one voice that NPR does have on hand that presents a good marriage of youthful freshness and traditional diction while remaining pleasing and understandable is David Greene, currently on Morning Edition. Do you experience this as an interviewer? One from Texas wrote: "Not all Americans sound like White American politicians and I wish that could be reflected on your airwaves.". I thought it must be a local thing. Hahaha Russell you are SPOT on! Listening to NPR is what got this whole thing started a few years back But now these patterns are showing up everywhere. You know This phrase is increasingly being usedat the beginning of the sentence as a lead-in. These five speech patterns have become rampant in interviews. It may be a form of ageism, but there is truth to every stereotype. Thats what it sounds like and it annoys me. As to use of words, and at least on the radio and applying to both male and female, using ta for to Ive heard world-renowned physicists do this. Given NPR's millions of listeners, pleasing each one all the time would be an impossible goal. 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!. i agree, it drives me insane , they sound like 4 year olds. 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. But perhaps it is also a societal takeover of inferior standards that will continue to decline. Very. If the person is on TV, I have to change the channel. Drives me nuts. Probably because I was born in the 70s and obviously grew up in valley girl 80s. Jessica Hansen is the voice of NPR's funding credits, and serves as an in-house voice coach for NPR. benefit, I wish to now address your repeated use of the term so I can deal with that but having to stand there and not be able to express a thought is just too much. Such as certain ,they no longer pronounce the t. No statement can ever, ever stand on its own without an intensifier. Even politics reporter Detrow, who doesn't hear from listeners about his voice, said he evaluates his own interviews. The point is not worth discussing because of what was just said. Its a strange phenomenon in my mind, but of course trends come and go. You guys seems to be winning in the USA, so if it bothers you, Im afraid youre out of luck. I saw it as SORE-ree. Unfortunately its very prevalent down here in Australia. There are a lot of great voices too though. A big offender is Marie Harf (former FOX News Dem commentator and former Obama State Department Spokeswoman). Vocal fry refers to a low, glottal, animal-like sound that speech pathologists consider a vocal disorder. Profeasionally, it comes down to efficiency and economy not to waste talk time with meaningless utterances or distractions. The word than demands a comparison of degrees, e.g., something is hotter/louder/more annoying than something else. Theres another pronunciation of words that drive me to distractionor in this case I should say diSHtraction. They clearly make a conscious decision to not have Black announcers speaking in the dominant Black American Vernacular English. I am finding it increasingly more difficult to watch television, or listen to certain radio broadcasters, due to distracting speech patterns and styles. However, the habit of young womens talk that no one has mentioned is the tendency to cluster words together in extremely fast phrases within sentences, a habit which once I notice, becomes increasingly irritating. Aural homogeneity discourages listeners and future radio-makers who don't fit the mold. I just wanna know whats the reason behind it so i can try to stop being annoyed hahaha. I mean, how did people even get through the day before the internet was invented! This is what annoys me and I am a woman. I think, that new forms of expression are good because language is alive and new inventions created new vocabulary as well. 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. And the horrible grammar: Her and I. I have a small business and refuse to hire anyone who speaks like anyone described in the article or these annoying ways of speaking. ", Another listener from Minnesota wrote that "millennial correspondents" who speak with vocal fry "seems to counter NPR's high standards. Sorry for the typo of the when it should have been they. How about pandimik (apparently meaning pandemic,) mimber (apparently meaning member,) and oh god, space (apparently derived from safe space). THANK YOU for this! However, Ive noticed a horrible trend, especially on Parcast, to have females doing commercials who sound like babies. 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. Different than makes no sense. that the odds are every one of those comments is directly speaking to another comment directed indirectly to another comment and so on? Anything you can think of, no matter how tiny and insignificant it may be, can be described as a game changer. Every sentence is spoken as a question, whether it is or not. Vocal fry isnt going away anytime soon because television advertisers use it to show their product is hip. 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. No. I am Jack and this? I call it excessive schwa-ing. Its good to see I am not. Well, if you look at the data, youll kind of notice that theres a trend that sort of jumps out at you.. I wondered if I was alone in my discomfort. He has become hyper-sensitive to even the most polite criticism, and I blame this solely on our P.C. upspeak, vocal fry, constant buzzwords, overworked filler phrases, etc. Criticizing someone's voice often seems to be a criticism of their identity. No one says sof-ten or lis-ten or plumb-er. I also blame Britney Spears. One reason we don't comment on reporters' voices is because voice is personal. caused your repeated use of the vague term, space, without a specific Or you might hear the hushed monotone parodied in Saturday Night Live's iconic "Schweddy Balls" sketch. "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. type in this format, it. ^ That, I hear all the time (Southern California). The NPR Podcast. I first heard this on a home decorating tv show. 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. Or is it gender? What comes to mind when you imagine an "NPR voice"? Im sorry to say that the age old requirement to communicate accurately both verbally and in writing, and to effectively be your true self while communicating, is rapidly being lost to us all, in favour of these Social Media / Reality TV educated fools who cant be bothered to spell a word properly or fully, or string a coherent sentence together without an emoji! This is why I refuse to hire young people! In the Fresh Air episode about criticism of young women's voices she said,"People are busy policing young women's language, and nobody is policing older or younger men's language.". It seems all females under age 35 speak this way. Ive heard this a lot in the mid-Atlantic states, but lately its infested patterns of speech throughout the United Stateshow about Canada? Why do major newscasters use the word That so much!?!? At least we can take comfort knowing that some of these annoying fillers indeed die out eventually. I think its an attempt to sound more confident, self-assured and forceful. It is always annoying, but sometimes makes the report(s) unlistenable. The voices on NPR are more diverse than ever. 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. I want it to stop, NOW! Remember this rant next time you hear Were all in this together blah blah blah., By the way Im not real keen on the use of repurpose or deconstruct.. Im wondering if there is a name for a pattern Im noticing when people start listing bullet point details. and our https://t.co/7p2fxbZTAN. This is currently the speech trend that is driving me insane, even more so sometimes than vocal fry, which really bugs me. Ive NO idea where it came from or why. Nothing new! Aha, I see what you did there. After living abroad for over a decade, I noticed in the mid-1990s that, in the workplace, every female in a supervisory position seemed compelled to preface nearly every declarative sentence with, At this time. It was quite ridiculous to hear something like, At this tiiiime, we do not have a vacancy, but wed like to talk to you, so At this tiiime, can you tell me if you could come in at 10:00 on Thursday? Another big offender is the reality tv show, e.g. Theres no room for any reply and honestly, I no longer care. The sound of 2020 America is a chirpy vocal fry. This is only a small portion of the sissification of men that I could rant about but it is the most annoying. She can help reporters reduce vocal fry in their speech if they want to. What are they like. All of this is annoying- up talk, vocal fry, So. 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. And when people speak without a script they often use filler words or make minor grammatical mistakes. There are two in particular that drive me insane: different than and misnomer.. Ive even come close to writing to NPR about their guests propensity to start sentences with so. Another one Ive heard lately is everything going on these days. Why use a euphemism in place of the pandemic? I am also hearing stated instead of simply said, and dont get me started on the misuse of myself. Thank you for validating my observations! Maybe its the microphones? Interviewer asks, Why is the current focus on companies like Exxon?, Young woman interviewee: Yeah, so Exxon is a high-profile, Mostly, young women seem to do this. What I notice is the use of Well, before almost every response by news panelists. Charlotte, dropping the g has been around since I was a young teen, in the early 70s. It is difficult to give an example because this is a pitch pattern not just certain words. Person 1: So what is your opinion on adding cream to this dessert? The pay is $18 an hour, and Id start on next Monday, soyeah. (My 18-yo granddaughter, recently). And, while you're at it, also check out Amanda Hess' take on the vocal-fry debateaka Why Old Men Find Young Women's Voices So Annoyinghere. right? Just because theres a stringor SHTRingof letters composed of an s, t and a nearby r, doesnt mean that English suddenly and surreptitiously morph into German pronunciation. Thank you so much, Debbie and Baz! I have to wonder if schools still teach sentence diagrams. Kids used to be so proud when their cursive writing improved as they practiced it. 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. Yet many here dont seem to question their own speech patterns or prejudices. So, it is not just me that notices this. Imitating neanderthals? These are commentators, announcers, and reporters!! They sound exhausted or out of breath. Can I just start by saying that two very annoying vocal trends that have reached us here in the UK / Northern Ireland in recent years are up speaking and vocal fry, which are bad enough on their own. Shell draw out her sentences with filler words and phrases such as now this adding in a firm yeah this speak continues with nonsensical words until she brings in another thought. In another, speakers with vocal fry received more votes in a hypothetical election. The first part of the sentence is on a lower pitch and then last word is HIGHerrr, and then the next is back to the first lower and last word is in the MIDDleee , etc. Cookie Notice Also, why has everyone started turning ts to ds. Person 2: So South African farmers are facing difficult times nowadays The sad thing is people who should know better obviously dont.murlean. It totally baffles me. The millions of people who comprise society absolutely do not need to adapt to the annoying speech patterns of an entitled few. She found that people over 40 heard the utterance without any creak as more authoritative, while people under 40 found both clips authoritative. I abhor this glottal stop. 2) I cant stand the making every sentence sound like a question- Why isnt anyone saying to anymore? 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. Im trying to find this info, too. Monkey hear, Monkey say! and then I got stuck in trafiiiiic, so I was late for woooork, people are off siiiick, we have more to doooo, I had t skip luuuunch ad nauseam. Food more and more often is being pronounce feud. It sounds like theyre saying, Think yeeough. in a rude, snobby, sneer down the nose at you manner. This kind of speech pattern is common amongst younger television announcers/commentators. Second one: the pin/pen merger. Thank you for helping me put a name to this! She has taught throughout the Washington metropolitan area, including the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and American University. They must be changed Out. Nearly 15 years ago, a previous Public Editor bemoaned the lack of aural diversity on NPR. My goodness! 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. James, Segue is a conditional signal that the conversation has changed hands to the other participant. The truth is clear. I was seriously annoyed . Can you point to the bu**un? Perhaps Im better not to. Ive noticed that, too. Stop adding, subtracting, and manipulating language to influence or control the listener. I hear these daily with the younger crowd at work, and it has become an epidemic, catching on with even older folks. Scott Detrow, a politics reporter, is a white man. To me, that sounds idiotic and uppity, not to mention the hyper pronunciation. Someone told me it started with the Kardashians, which doesnt surprise me if thats true. Worchestershire sauce anyone? Perhaps I need to pay more attention to the bungled up speech patterns that are in use. Re-reading your article I see your use of annoying phrases was intentional and very effective. I hope youll be disturbed too. I refuse point blank to allow anyone to communicate with me other than within the acceptable parameters of good spoken and written English i.e. During her 10-year tenure as Artistic Director, Lean & Hungry's shows were heard on public radio stations in 8 states and the District of Columbia, with an estimated audience of 42,000 listeners for each show. Glen Washington (Snap Judgment) is so smooth, I also like Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji (Code Switch). Five lines from the bottom, auto correct changed Sanskrit to sandscript. Look at any Hugh Grant movie, and youll see. I find that more often there is not an understanding of why this might be appropriate, especially by my younger students & family members. My vote for most annoying speech affectation goes to the word to. Those experiences felt like subtle whitewashing of his voice. I think it was around this time that the issue of vocal fry came to the foreground on NPR. I think it is annoying when people answer a question with, Yes, no It seems trendy with Britsh speakers. 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. There's still debate in the medical community about whether vocal fry harms the vocal folds, but Hansen said it can stress them. METAPHORICALLY no one? My gripe is mainly with broadcasting media, films, books, articles, any sort of communication authority, that has embraced these habits. Yeah, naa, yeah is, similar to the Yeah, nowait, what?. Her words hold me hostage. Jessica Hansen, one of the voices of NPR's funding credits and its in-house vocal coach, helps reporters hone their voices for air. 'Planet money,' 'This American Life,' 'Radiolab,' 'Startup' Why? Privacy Policy. The staccato, infantile voices of the most cultured, educated, experienced, expert young women must have some scientific basis. Over his 10 years at NPR, he said he has grown emotionally to trust that his voice is enough. Ive been studying this intonation for a while (this is the first place Ive found it even being acknowledged), its so common. I cannot remember any time that the person uttering that delusional phrase wasnt in political arts.. Id love to know how it happens. It makes these women sound like spoiled little girls who are accustomed to getting things their own way, and you better expect a tantrum if they dont get what they want. Some time around the late 90s, early 2000s, it was taken off the graded subjects. I love to hear all types of accents, and regional dialects, as long as theyre intelligible. 2) Adding Sh sound to words starting with ST, as mentioned in earlier comment. thats Mineah! The tone, rhythm, and inflections grate on the ear. . This one comes at the end of sentences, apparently to encourage or sometimes subtly force agreement on the listener. Ive forgone many a great podcast topic due to vocal fry or overuse of right. much more easily. Does anyone out there have any thoughts on any possible geographic relationship? I meant in first person plural. [sheepish grin], Lets not forget the verbal infestation known as seriously. Clearly, it morphed perhaps by laziness from Are you serious [about]?, 1) I call it the shopping list speech pattern: I went to the store and bought some EGGS.. got some MILK and some BACON Youve covered it all, including the Yes, no stupidity. It is an art not a nuisance. Thank you for your comment! "You're on the air, not having a conversation with a buddy in a bar. While it may not be pleasing to US, it may be a more recognizable and standard sound to those who are currently hiring VO talent, or even on-camera talent. I dont watch the show often, but find the interaction interesting & noticed the speech differences early on. I mean, like, Im literally, like, here. Sam Sanders, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, records a segment at NPR West on September 24, 2018. Where Youre welcome implies that you went out of your way and accept their thanks as your praise. It really became a battle of negative personalities in a race to the bottom of common decency.. It sounds like cookie cutter script. Theres no k sound in the word, yet many people want to pronounce it as though there is. Ah. My wife has been sucked in and watches all of these, albeit now in private, as I spend most of my time pointing out how these dumb narcissistic losers, sap the very life out of all right-thinking folks within humanity. In the series Heartland, it is practically half of the dialog. No-uh. 1. Not only I improperly placed but me used at the start of a phrase. It is not good representation of the general population; especially the show where it is only women who have the speech impediments. 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. 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 that when I hear those tones I think Im about to be bitten. Im so glad I stumbled upon this story which consolidates all the worst habits of TV news people as well as the thread of reader responses. (ex. Does anyone say FebRuary without sounding ridiculous? walkeen instead of walking. Its my second or third. Voice. Has anyone experienced this verbal hostage taking? A lazy speech habit that grates on my nerves is the use of Also too. 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. Why? I first noticed this on the Ezra Klein podcast. My husband watches CNBC a lot (financial channel) and even listening to various serious commentators and guests you can hear many examples of these patterns. Alison MacAdam April 30, 2015. Credit: Emily Jan. I am also hearing a and an used incorrectly. I DO say February. What is this called? Hey, buddy if you dont stop telling me to look, Ill just have to decline to listen. She has studied Alexander, Linklater, LeCoq, Stanislawski, Michael Chekhov, Meisner, Roy Hart, Suzuki, Viewpoints, and many other acting, voice, and movement techniques. Now that youve become painfully aware of my top five annoying speech patterns, please share your ownspeech pattern pet peeves. Common decency make minor grammatical mistakes and, as long as theyre.! 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