But instead it sounds like I went to the STOre, then the gas STAtion, and then got something to EAT.. I am Jack and this is my dog Thats the sky, thats the sea, and that? A lazy speech habit that grates on my nerves is the use of Also too. A video on Today explains how it makes the women feel part of a macroculture.. I cant stand amazing. What game? Drives me nuts! EVERY FRICKIN interview has yeah yeah yeah!, more and more in the past 6 or so months. Dont know if this is quite in the same league, but watching YouTube videos, there is a channel called Triggernometry I like that does interesting interviews/chats on sometimes contentious topics. that the odds are every one of those comments is directly speaking to another comment directed indirectly to another comment and so on? Initially I read your comment as a knock on the Canadian pronunciation of sorry. 2. Is it to have a snippet of time before responding? It makes the person listening want to say Please, just get to the point!, Can I just add..yeh yeh yeh yeh.. (in a convonot a song chorus. I abhor this glottal stop. 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. Vocal fry is one of the main voice complaints sent to the Invisibilia team, said project manager Liana Simstrom, who handles audience engagement for the narrative podcast about human behavior. Very annoying. e.g. How did this start? The t sound is there; the enunciation is just very soft, almost swallowed, because the word is split into syllables in a different place than whats proper. While I agree that its a lazy way of speaking, its probably more a regional speech pattern than anything else. I have tried to adjust. Its on Noom commercials, too. YES. Sorrey and sorry. Ive heard this a lot in the mid-Atlantic states, but lately its infested patterns of speech throughout the United Stateshow about Canada? Ugh! I wonder if there is a name for this yet? Thanks for any suggestions. If reporters find that their voices are "tired," reducing vocal fry might be one way to help. Its bad enough to hear it in speech but I recently received an email that began with these words. Thanks for your comment! But I remain relentless I call it out every time. I dont claim to speak perfect English but these are things every child learns in grade school. Food more and more often is being pronounce feud. One the first of second episodes of Star Trek Discovery, I think thats the name, the captain says, thish traitor. The whiny and drawn-out words, how can I cite an example? Who taught them to speak? She is best known for her role in the NPR Morning Edition and All Things Considered. 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! 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. I am dropping the mike now. 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. Its just annoying affectation and you KNOW they know better but they think it is adding something. At one point in the history of the English language, you was the *plural* second-person pronoun, and thou was singular. Arent there any metrics showing that people fast forward when they come on? 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. We all must remember to keep our minds sharp and active. Can you tell the audience Some of the family members have a better capacity to use words, language & phraseology than others that still use upspeak, vocalfry, text slang & whining. Listen to Dr. Blassey Ford. Music is music. Offer them a mask as they debark the plane while thanking them for flying F.U. 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 Jessica Hansen has one of the most annoying deliveries I can ever recall hearing from an announcernot only on NPR, but in the world of broadcasting. I m hearing the phrases theres no doubt about it and theres no question about it and the variations: no doubt about it, no doubt, no question about it, and no question. This is currently the speech trend that is driving me insane, even more so sometimes than vocal fry, which really bugs me. 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. Second one: the pin/pen merger. For example as heard by a newscaster recently: Using it as a string of bullet points makes the writer sound illiterate. 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. I recall an item on the NPR program All Things Considered in the EARLY 90s about the rising inflection? To me, it sounds like theyve actually forgotten to end the word and let that final syllable continue to sound out for an extended period. Please shut up!!! What fascinates me most about it is that its unconsciously infused the American English speaking world, every seems to do it, everyone also seems to get it it never leaves anyone confused. While for many VO artists, like you and me, we strive to have a more refined and adjusted voice, that is more pleasing to the ear, I do find that in general media such as TV, film and especially commercials, the prevalence of this is a reflection of the prevalence found in the general population. 3. Someone mentioned literally here and now that I think of it that one annoys me when I hear the younger members of the family use it, as well as actually. 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. It really does grate on the nerves. I have also noticed when people use a hard g instead of a soft or silent g in many words. At the end of a sentence? thing (and, as illustrated, often prematurely ending a sentence that actually wasnt? I forgot about another sentence I hate, Playin, doin, shopping, talkin, and just today consultin. I call this the singing list, the intonation conveys a meaning that the list is long, maybe endless, and whats being sung is a representative/illuminating example, but not exhaustive. The young woman in the commercial exclaimed, Its Dove-ah! Now I notice it all the time. Like things like like because its just, like, beyond ubiquitous and you already know about it. More on that idea here. Hahaha Russell you are SPOT on! Hansen began acting at age 5, and was a cast member of a TV series on resisting peer pressure at 12. This is a difference due to where one was raised to speak. Theuse of such patterns do more than annoy the listener. I was actually googling, trying to find if this type of (annoying!) I was seriously annoyed . It sounds like cookie cutter script. Someone. Thank you is the correct response. Amen!!! And I give a slight nod to the d in Wednesday. The marketing profession is an enemy to communicationmuch like the buzzspeak in 1984. I cant stand to hear it, like nails on a chalkboard young ladies, please correct yourselves!!! 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.. This past year has seemed a bit empty at times when social isolation has become the new normal. Lets not forget the increasingly common tyoo in lieu of two, to, or too. Argh!!! As a result, many teachers stopped teaching it. Many people ARE taking advantage of the hot weather. They rise the inflection of the words at the end of every sentence. Unfortunately its very prevalent down here in Australia. They are typically found in unscripted, more extemporaneous speech. I have been trying to figure out why so so many people in TV commercials speak with a lisp. THAT is annoying. All the best to you in navigating our wonderful world of words! But among friends all the time. Another one that I have not seen anyone else mention is does that make sense after every sentence. I mean, like, Im literally, like, here. My current most annoying list includes some new & old (along with my initial yeah, no): 1) Vocalfry, can actually hurt voice. Jessica Hansen, one of the voices of NPR's funding credits and its in-house vocal coach, helps reporters hone their voices for air. Yes, vocal fry has become almost a standard version of vocalization in our current era. Theres another pronunciation of words that drive me to distractionor in this case I should say diSHtraction. Then in addition to vocal fry they have to insert the word super at least once into each sentence. There are some new kids on the block this year: In these trying times. If I hear this on TV I change the channel. 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. 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. Would my friends laugh if I developed the chirpy voice? Monkey hear, Monkey say! 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. To say that all these fad-driven speech patterns are kinda, sorta, well I dont know, annoyingmay seem a bit harsh. I think it was about a year ago that I first noticed this creeping into speech. We can expect the children of millennials to pass annoying speech patterns on to their children. Then there is borough , pronounced burra, the yanks say burrow, thats what a mole does in your garden. My fifteen year old son frequently accuses me of picking on him for the way he speaks/writes. No one speaks like that in conversation and I find it both distracting and irritating. It is hard to describe but Ive narrowed it down to when a woman has to tell a story or recount something that has a list of things in it. OMG! Real News Host: In the last five minutes of the segment, for the viewers I dont care where you are from, how heavy your accent is of that area or even if you dont have a higher education, but if you can speak in a way that is commanding (rather than many of the demanding ways people converse now), you can talk about any subject, and I will be interested. Manhattan is apparently now Manhadden. I found this article looking for answer to that question. 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). Indeed, there's an ongoing conversation within public radio about the extent to which the industry asks some journalists to change their voices to conform to the (mostly white) voices that came before them. These are interior designers and contractors. Yeah, no. It makes my skin crawl, when people say are, when it is PRONOUNCED, OUR!!! Great job! Yet its undocumented. I have two. Thank goodness I stopped listening to American mainstream news with all their Aussie employees. It feels very much like assumed humility and manipulation. Every generation has its own trends, and thats natural, but this trend is spreading and sticking. It seems all females under age 35 speak this way. 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? So, what weve found in our research is that people tend to add this word as a way to sound informal yet still be an expert.. What comes to mind when you imagine an "NPR voice"? The sad thing is people who should know better obviously dont.murlean. That happened to Mike Cooper, a voice-over artist who recently stumbled upon his voice being used without his knowledge for AI. !, WAIT-aahh. A few other exercises for keeping voice forward are: Humming. And they do it a lot. The worst speech pattern for me is when the speaker put strong emphasis on many words in the same sentence, for example: But this pattern is now very diffuse, especially for people who do speeches, they think that putting a strong emphasis on each words makes their speech more powerful, while in reality it just dilutes the effect because now most words are pronunced with emphasis. Who started that? And their voices reflect indelible features of their backgrounds where they're from and the voices they grew up with. the way I was taught to as a very young child. People are suddenly emphasizing the wrong syllable in words that end in dent. Also have you noticed that many reporters and tv personalities will repeat words over and over like that that that that,,,and, and, and and to to to to which is now ta ta ta ta (examplethey were going ta ta ta be there on Friday) etc. None of these up-and-coming phrases ever appear in scripts that I read for actual voice-over jobs or auditions. I call it excessive schwa-ing. I have to tune her out because I cant stand to listen to her talk. The pervasive use of hypophora, mostly in spoken media, is more than annoying to me! Politician: Look, we in my state believe that those people working in the aerospace industry are important. 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. Hansen strives to make quality performance accessible to everyone, whether as a performer, creator, strategic leader, or coach. Its the teacher and college professors that are spreading this annoying trend. airlines. Can you comment on a growing trend of, what one person termed, manufactured precision diction? Were all in this together. Uh, no we are not. I heard one person this past weekend start literally every response with, Look. 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