I agree with many of the annoying speech discussed here. There are so many of these annoying speech patterns and they are contagious. November 28, 2016 by Debbie Grattan 307 Comments. I am thankful for people like you, who are still standing for some standards in a young society that is so quick to discard and dismantle anything that seems to be inconvenient or in any way challenging to their accepted, and often sub-par standards. Receive a detailed quote, custom audition, and the ultimate in voice quality. This is only a small portion of the sissification of men that I could rant about but it is the most annoying. This is a huge trend on YouTube right now and its quite annoying. This listing or auctioneer way of speaking is an affectation from vlogs. Excellent analysis!!! We all must remember to keep our minds sharp and active. OMG! It is not just annoying, it sounds absolutely ridiculous. I even contacted a renowned acting school. Filed Under: Fun Stuff Tagged With: Featured, patterns, speech, voice over style. Its a lisp and something that should have been fixed in grade school. Even if something just happened and I witnessed it with him. 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? Try listing the garnishes you can add to a hamburger ( tomato, lettuce, onion, etc ) without going up in pitch with each word. Important..pronounced Im-por-ent. Sounds like a 2 year old learning to speak. 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. I work for a large tech company in the SF Bay Area and I can attest that uptalk, unfortunately, is more pervasive than ever. The young woman in the commercial exclaimed, Its Dove-ah! Now I notice it all the time. Tomorrow WILL be a hot day or Another one that I see increasingly in many of those under 40, is known as g-dropping. This kind of speech pattern is common amongst younger television announcers/commentators. you left out one which has spread like wildfire the last few months (besides UHMMM)it is a click as I call it every time the person opens their mouth to start a sentence,kinda like chewing gum with your mouth open kind of a sucking click-I swear these things are done to get your attention for trivial things which the person want you to listen to. 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. I am so tired of women trying to sound like little girls and drawing out their s sounds. He wrote to us about his experience hearing reporters who did not sound like he does. I mean This completely unnecessary phrase seems to just be a habitual way to start sentences for many people. An awful conversational bridge. 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. I feel more rested? You obviously havent heard anyone say super over and over. Why not just be brave and make a direct statement without the sort of timidity? I saw it as SORE-ree. Spot on! As in: Reporter: Do you favor wearing masks in public to help slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2? 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! Also, I heard earlier on a My Pillow commercial a similar error which I failed to write down. I agree though, like the tattoo girl on the Twix commercial that spells NO REGERTS and then says Sawree in that whiny sarcastic voice. 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! and I was totally unprepared for it? More on that idea here. Its interesting to see how the pureness of the English language can be corrupted in some ways, by modern speech patterns, mostly by native English speakers. I think it was around this time that the issue of vocal fry came to the foreground on NPR. Thanks for your comment! You guys seems to be winning in the USA, so if it bothers you, Im afraid youre out of luck. Thats litteriiiiing, and he just kept walkiiiiing That isnt exactly it, but its similar. Its pervasive with men and women. 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. Yes, I have an accent, but I use proper English as my model to imitate. These are examples of bad grammar, mispronounced words, and slang. Worchestershire sauce anyone? If you ask me again, Id also predict the tide will turn and people who drop these phrases will come out on top in the long run. I dont consider it thoughtful because the next word follows immediately. What is that? Not sure what thats called, maybe we should invent a name for it . There are two in particular that drive me insane: different than and misnomer.. They have this childish high pitched baby voice and its like stabbing my ears with bamboo skewers. If I am in another room from the TV and a female news anchor is speaking, it seems all I can hear are explosive ah and eh sounds. Theres another pronunciation of words that drive me to distractionor in this case I should say diSHtraction. Is it a geographical thing? They are typically found in unscripted, more extemporaneous speech. its so not fairah!!. Its an epidemic among millennial actors, hosts, and cable news panelists/contributors. The sad thing is people who should know better obviously dont.murlean. or: Epic, etc. The vocal twerk I hear in men (mostly) is Listenfeels like a subtle form of bullying. The only thing more annoying is the continuation of the last syllable in a series of items. This had to have started with someonemaybe a Kardashian? I put my own example of me saying it in this Youtube link: I couldnt continue to watch. You should receive an employer of the year award. Help. Or, should I say, I have tried to adjust? It is not possible. I thought it must be a local thing. You two have made so many excellent points! It hurts my ears! I dont know, but it happens more often than youd think. They must be changed Out. She doesn't mind sounding human. People are suddenly emphasizing the wrong syllable in words that end in dent. This is why I refuse to hire young people! It seems to be many white females that Im noticing using this trend. 2) I cant stand the making every sentence sound like a question- Questions. Politicians and reporters insist on saying Look before spewing a profound statement. I find that contrary to the quality of education that many of us older folks received. Most annoying speech pattern of the decade? People confessing to something or revealing something or letting someone know about how they feel about something is described not as revealed or confessed but so and so opened up about whatever. I first noticed vocal fry around 2007 when two young female supervisors of mine would literally end each sentence with 4 to 5 seconds of vocal fry. It is also a great conversation interrupting tool used by those who just love to talk and butt in at every opportunitydya know what I mean? You missed uh, um, well you know( the three words used together). Why? I like to call this Laundry Listing because it is like they are giving you this boring laundry list of things. to make it sound as it is so amazing, and all-important. Debbie also provides phone-related voice over services including phone prompts, messages-on-hold and outbound phone marketing for companies in the United States and Canada. I guess my question is: is this a recognised speech defect? Children these days arent even taught it anymore, and should they actually receive a hand-written note, they act as if they are translating some strange foreign sandscript language, to even try and read it. The letter A seems to be the guiding light. OMG! and our 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? Not sure. 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. Change out. its there, though much less pronounced (sic.). Allison Shelley/NPR Yes her voice was tough to take but once you realized what she went through.well fuck. I first heard this on a Dove commercial. Or I mean, Im not lyin when I say Didnt sonds like Di-int, Couldnt sounds like Cou-int. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notification of new posts by email. thas instead of thats (which is the abbreviation for that is) We can expect the children of millennials to pass annoying speech patterns on to their children. I am seriously thinking of finding a new provider for that very reason. Like any job, radio journalism requires training. It may have developed independently in both places. I see it in the office at work and from my 16 yr old Daughter. I completely agree with the annoying no problem response from a server after saying Thank you. This occurs a lot when listing items. Im done. Yeah, used in this odd transitional way. These are just regional inflections, not errors per se. These hip speech patterns are used by women in, I would say 90% of the conversations Im involved with or hearing out in public. Theuse of such patterns do more than annoy the listener. But Glass said in that episode that he never hears about his. Required fields are marked *. Ive been looking to see if i can find more information about where this is coming fromdrives me crazyuh. I say borough as burrow and mirror as mirror, not meara. Dropping the T is not a girl thing, at least not in the American South. Add on the ground. Even when an exact location is given, the ubiquitous use of on the ground, drives me quite mad. 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!! 2% comes from Federal grants from the commerce department otherwise there is no direct federal funding. For example, in Alabama, pen and pin are pronounced the same way. I thought I was being a stodgy Gen Xer in feeling profound contempt for these news pundits on CNN and MSNBC I just keep yelling at my TV: you sound like a moron! Theyre clearly not morons though many are well-educated and very smart but when they say right? and start a sentence with so they sound like idiots. I have heard several other women speak this way and it grates on my nerves. A year ago I started a list of new words and phrases starting to appear in last 20 years. Today IS the first day of Spring But if there was a single origin, the West Coast USA seems more likely to me considering the larger population and the amount of film and TV produced there thats consumed internationally. thank you again for such a thoughtful response. Should school lectures take place on the moon, or just remotely via satellite? Pretty much everywhere to enunciate the ts in button is not correct. Most of us know the way we speak may change depending what social situation were in. Such as certain ,they no longer pronounce the t. And another one is annudder (another). The spaces are inappropriate and create tension for the listener. Is there not an audio producer charged with asking the reporters to speak with more maturity and confidence? Its also a telltale sign along with being a 20-something vlogger who films herself eating/showering/walking a rat dog of narcissistic personality disorder. It was the most annoying thing I had ever heard. Literally?! 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. Listen out for it ; itll shock you just how common it is! every word. It was made popular by chef Gordon Ramsden. Were all in this together. Uh, no we are not. Listen to Dr. Blassey Ford. i agree, it drives me insane , they sound like 4 year olds. Sorry, but Im not pronouncing button as butt-ton. A question mark has a specific purpose in the English language. I am glad you are pointing them as incorrect and idiotic. 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. 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. That happened to Mike Cooper, a voice-over artist who recently stumbled upon his voice being used without his knowledge for AI. There is no place in the adult, professional world for this nonsense. I agree. Recently I have noticed what I call the Consonant Drag where the speaker is explaining something and they drag the consonants as if to give them space to think it out. Thats probably (not proaly) one reason kids cant spell them correctly later. Auto-formatting removed the numerous spaces between the words in my last sentence, rendering the example less than illustrative. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Good to know I am not the only person being annoyed by the way women robot-speak to the latest trend. Comments like that don't bother or surprise Fortir. Kind of (or sort of) This tidbit is used anywhere in the middle, as a way to not say what you really mean. One thing journalists I spoke to said: They're real people and they'd like to sound real too. is a problem. It seems that amazing has become the new awesome. (And yes, she also hears a lot of feedback on her own voice.). It seems all females under age 35 speak this way. The T-dropping is especially irritating because it sounds like something a very young kid would do and I HATE when adults talk like toddlers. Sorry for the typo of the when it should have been they. this article was originally conceived after listening to NPR and the annoying patterns heard by those that are supposed to be professional broadcasters. This is teh dropping of the letter g at the end of ing words, ie: singin goin droppin etc. But among friends all the time. Back in the day you would be fired for delivering news that way. It sounds like theyre saying, Think yeeough. in a rude, snobby, sneer down the nose at you manner. Thank you Baz for this eloquently written commentary. She can help reporters reduce vocal fry in their speech if they want to. He would call us out too. And, therein lies the issue. As a mother of 2 teens, I can certainly relate. 3 length vs. lenth, H (long a and ch) vs. (long a and shuss), streaming vs. shreaming. The marketing profession is an enemy to communicationmuch like the buzzspeak in 1984. No one speaks like that in conversation and I find it both distracting and irritating. Your observations are wonderful & interesting. Button, mountains Stoooop with the glottal stop! 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). And last but certainly NOT least, saying the work right after every other sentence this makes me feel physically nauseated. You know This phrase is increasingly being usedat the beginning of the sentence as a lead-in. The voice goes up and slows down, theeeeeeeen, then they list detail 1, and detail two (pause) and detail three. Also, ahhhhh, ahhhhhhh when they see a puppy or baby or receive a gift, etc. And the second? Instead of just saying the first is Y, the second one is Z. I suppose the purpose is to draw suspense or to be clever, but it is so unnecessary and stupidly interrupts the flow of a list of reasons. And lets not ignore the disproportionate amount of times speech pattern analysis (even here, in this comment section) is essentially just an excuse to satisfy a societal itch to hate things that are trending amongst young women. I think females tend to do this more often and more dramatically. Ek-specially, think-yewwwuh and using individual instead of person are three of my current annoyance triggers. I was thinking maybe it was a Mexican/American thing (I am Canadian). Your email address will not be published. Housewives of wherever, The Hills, Keeping up with, The Apprentice. My goodness, there are annoying speech patterns in every language, and by sex. SO NECESSARY! What brought me here was the irritating way young females pronounce thank you. Reporters get these complaints directly, too. 'Planet money,' 'This American Life,' 'Radiolab,' 'Startup' Why? Jessica Hansen is the voice of NPR's funding credits, and serves as an in-house voice coach for NPR. I found this sight because I searched to see if I was the only one annoyed by sentences starting with So , which I find very annoying. The sound of 2020 America is a chirpy vocal fry. OMG! 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. Quick, before you faint! I find it so distracting that I dont hear what theyre saying anymore, and thats not good. My purpose in searching phrases that led me here was the very annoying yeah, no or visa versa. Thats my new pet peeve and I wish I knew a way to counsel him on it! More common, is hearing someone speak with various combinations of several of these patterns appearing in just one sentence! And look, weyak, yak, yak.. OKIE It will not be a sad day for me when vocal fry becomes a bygone trend. Lets take a selfie of you and I. First, they sound like they are pedaling up a hill. Though Sanders, of It's Been a Minute, has heard from listeners that he and his panelists use "like" too much, he thinks it's indicative of a good conversation. The So at the beginning of every answer to a question, the Vocal Fry, the Upspeak all irritate me beyond all measure. If you really sit down and read every word its a fascinating phenomenon. Sometimes reporters do incorporate feedback about their delivery. E.g. You can even mix them all together in infinite combinations: Right, so you know the best way to find out answers is to Google it, right? Hansen strives to make quality performance accessible to everyone, whether as a performer, creator, strategic leader, or coach. as f*ck immediately comes to mind, stupid-sounding phrases like SO MUCH YES! I mean this completely unnecessary phrase seems to be many white females that Im using. 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