Duffin said voice critiques don't bother her personally but that she worries they limit who feels welcome on the air. 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.. That authenticity is key to NPR's original mission to "celebrate the human experience as infinitely varied." I think its lazy not to pronounce words correctly. All the best to you in navigating our wonderful world of words! And also SORREY, instead of saying sorry is a problem. What is this called? I dont see nobody there., Double negatives scream, I am uneducated! I once changed my childs preschool because his teacher said, We aint got no time for that. (Aint is another awful one.) Sort of and right came right out of Britain. Soooo, this car just ran through a stop sign.. ARE YOU READING ME A BEDTIME STORY? Reporters strive to sound clear and concise on air. Sounding clear and natural on air takes time and practice. YESSSS!,,,,,, the staccato speech is driving me away from tv. YES! Adding an additional, unnecessary syllable to certain words for emphasis: no becomes no-ah and hello turns into hello-ah.. as though the speaker just had to get rid of that extra bit of air, and vocalize it. 3) saying een for ingas in goeen or stayeen for going or coming Sad, but true. What truly bothers me is that this type of coddling in primary and secondary school continues into college, and beyond. This had to have started with someonemaybe a Kardashian? Pointing this out to friends, Im usually answered by yeah, I noticed, or good old-fashioned shrugs. Such as: NO-aahh!, STOP-aahh! Yeah at the beginning of a question that was not yes-or-no. All of this is from one person. I also see an affectation of a stammer, emphasizing the last syllable of a word, of a sentence, the totally unnecessary use of and so, after starting with the ubiquitous So, and repetition of statements as if the listener is an imbecile. I mean, how did people even get through the day before the internet was invented! Im a Southerner but I absolutely hate it. We cant ignore our own speech patterns if were going to engage in this sort of discussion. 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 ? Nice to find Im not the only person driven to distraction by these annoying speech habits. An interesting one this one. I am finding it increasingly more difficult to watch television, or listen to certain radio broadcasters, due to distracting speech patterns and styles. No statement can ever, ever stand on its own without an intensifier. I want it to stop, NOW! It has an r in it (two , to be pendantic) and I am not a child. Soooooo, its bad enough when girls speak that way but, when a guy does it, I know were in trouble. UGH!!! Does anyone out there have any thoughts on any possible geographic relationship? Alison MacAdam April 30, 2015. Credit: Emily Jan. Sorrey and sorry. As in: Reporter: Do you favor wearing masks in public to help slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2? If I were paying someone to speak on TV I would insist that they use the correct pronunciations. 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. my grammar and punctuation was intended as sarcasm but the rest was serious. I agree with many of the annoying speech discussed here. OMG! For some people, its their dominant speech pattern and they seemingly cant escape it. 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. 5) substituting Im here like or Hes here like for I said or he said. Ive seen talking heads on cable news panels do this ad-nauseum. Double negatives. I cannot remember any time that the person uttering that delusional phrase wasnt in political arts.. Im not sure if this was mentioned, but it seems to be an epidemic to list things and use the same pitch patterns ( high, medium, then lower). Can you point to the bu**un? Your observations are wonderful & interesting. 2. I get annoyed when people on TV or radio speak too quickly while also using fillers such as umm or uh. A question mark has a specific purpose in the English language. Playin, doin, shopping, talkin, and just today consultin. That reminds me of a form of uptalk, but also theres a thing I notice where a person will have two pitches in their speech. I mean, I dont know if Ive ever experienced anything like it grammatically in my entire 43 years, on this planet anyway. Have I become a crotchety old fart or is Idiocracy truly upon us? Yeah, naa, yeah is, similar to the Yeah, nowait, what?. and radio. 12 pt times new roman double spaces face to face conversations. (Mark Memmott, the standards and practices editor, has addressed some of those issues in the past.). In the series Heartland, it is practically half of the dialog. Theres always something! Unfortunately the word, the shouting and the angry demeanor are now used by many standup comedians in place of jokes. I abhor this glottal stop. My god, every single female and some of the males end every sentence like its a question. Its bazaar. 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. Please, lets stop hiring these dudes who are stuck in their own head trying to sound and trick us believing they are something they are not. Grammatical mistakes are less annoying, but still problematic. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Bring Debbie the details of your next commercial, narration, phone system recording or other voiceover project. New to me and I have grandchildren ranging from preschoolers to early 20s are the following: Ending a sentence with soyeah. Which is quite frankly one of the more annoying habits. Im not crazy Im being been driven there, though. Pay attention and I promise youll start noticing these patterns in nearly every casual conversation you listen in on. The one thats driving me crazy is this extra schwa added to the ends of words. A new one Ive just started noticing on a local radio interview, and from my husband (ugh) is accentuating the word to and a pause. look something like.. this. Or here in The UK / Ireland, Big Brother, Made in Chelsea to name but a few. watch a MOvie, read a BOok, eat a COOkie, Ooops! Look at any Hugh Grant movie, and youll see. Sucking on the teeth and smackingThis speaker does this , also. There is no place in the adult, professional world for this nonsense. FIGURATIVELY no one? I enjoyed reading them and replying as well. I find that contrary to the quality of education that many of us older folks received. Sam Sanders, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, records a segment at NPR West on September 24, 2018. Theres no k sound in the word, yet many people want to pronounce it as though there is. Please share more comments on this, and specifically what other patterns youd like to see us include in the next video. The tone, rhythm, and inflections grate on the ear. "You're on the air, not having a conversation with a buddy in a bar. For me, the whole So thing is one of these pet peeves that makes me want to smash whatever device Im hearing the word played upon. Its an epidemic among millennial actors, hosts, and cable news panelists/contributors. Anyone who thinks these things dont (or shouldnt) matter should think again. Merry fucking xmas. However preservation of correct grammar, and beauty of the English language is important to me and I refuse to adapt botching of the language. ", Another listener from Minnesota wrote that "millennial correspondents" who speak with vocal fry "seems to counter NPR's high standards. ***Follow @JoshVoorhees and the rest of the . 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. In I Have Some Questions for You, Makkai has carefully crafted a novel that inhabits a strange interstitial space between a whodunit, a crime novel with a few elements plucked from found footage . (ex. Aha, I see what you did there. NPR must be making a conscious decision to allow all of this. My vote for most annoying speech affectation goes to the word to. She has studied Alexander, Linklater, LeCoq, Stanislawski, Michael Chekhov, Meisner, Roy Hart, Suzuki, Viewpoints, and many other acting, voice, and movement techniques. 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 was thinking maybe it was a Mexican/American thing (I am Canadian). You should receive an employer of the year award. Duffin said she notices if she sounds "too throaty or gravely" while recording. We occasionally hear from listeners who critique what they perceive as the homogeneity of on-air voices. I guess my question is: is this a recognised speech defect? But perhaps it is also a societal takeover of inferior standards that will continue to decline. If it tickles, don't back off, you're doing it right! Out of protest, I might start writing the word out as ta, since that is how people are pronouncing the word. Using it as a string of bullet points makes the writer sound illiterate. Auto-formatting removed the numerous spaces between the words in my last sentence, rendering the example less than illustrative. I particularly despise yeah yeah yeah and starting sentences with So. He told me: That is a sign that I've opened them up, they feel comfortable and they're talking in the way that they just regularly talk. thas instead of thats (which is the abbreviation for that is) Charlotte, dropping the g has been around since I was a young teen, in the early 70s. So, you probably already know about vocal fry, valspeak and uptalk, right? 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. Thankfully, people have stopped using in terms of before every statement! He wrote to us about his experience hearing reporters who did not sound like he does. And another one is annudder (another). (My wife thinks I am. ) And Why It's. So Annoying Audio Funny Language More: 'Reply All' is a podcast which does not do this 7 years ago As the creator of this clips puts it: "All my favorite US podcasts are being ruined by this universally adopted affectation. 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. Its not a conscious thing. Thanks Ava for your note. No problem suggests that I might have been a problem. Maybe it is something that every generation deals with, so perhaps its just the age, life experience and maturity that needs to be there before common sense advice can sink in. I was thinking that I was the only hearing the incorrect use of the schwa during a recent newscast. To totally be, but, like, its totally not! ) This post & comments are fun because though annoying is a subjective quality, some of these patterns & phrasing are widely undesirable. Music is music. 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. I can only see things getting worse and I dont know how Ill deal with it. Im reading this because I am driven to distraction now that my husband has started constantly dropping the g from words ending in ing. the way I was taught to as a very young child. Hahaha Russell you are SPOT on! I cant stand amazing. METAPHORICALLY no one? Should school lectures take place on the moon, or just remotely via satellite? 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. So is a completely disingenuous and idiot transfer. Speaking as an African American woman, if being more inclusive is the aim it fails. I work with someone who is very intelligent in general, and very knowledgeable about the subject hes presenting but he has this annoying halting speech pattern. I also loathe when people pronounce nuclear as nucular. I mean, if it really was a problem that I say that phrase whenever Im trying to make my point, what difference does it make? Whatever! I blame social media and non-parenting. It is difficult to give an example because this is a pitch pattern not just certain words. We lost thou as its use changed to refer to social subordinates long story short, we ended up with you for both the second-person singular and second-person plural pronouns. Or, should I say, I have tried to adjust? It is not possible. Yeah, Ill second that motion. Other wise, this is mostly normal talk for everyone. Other specialties include female narration voice overs for corporate narration, web videos, tutorials, explainer videos and technical medical narration. Now its bad enough that nine times out of ten, the politician decides to answer some other question that (s)he deems more appealing. Hansen coaches voice for NPR, corporate groups, professional theater companies, podcast hosts, journalists, and private clients nationwide. I love the content of the daily but can't stand the guttural voice of Michael Barbaro. I notice my three year old great-grandson now says I really miss you guys when he used to just say I miss you., Some other annoying trends are 1) super, totally and uber for very What are they like. Different than makes no sense. Together with NPR's Training Team, she created a 10-minute voice coaching video, which offers tips to solve common vocal problems. infomercial voice overs and direct response marketing, Voice Over Trends 2023: Less Looking, More Listening, Is the Golden Age of Voice Over Gone? Much of what else is mentioned here Ive not heard or not noticed. Drives me nuts! Ive been looking to see if i can find more information about where this is coming fromdrives me crazyuh. Likely popularized by Michelle Obama and Oprah. And last but certainly NOT least, saying the work right after every other sentence this makes me feel physically nauseated. Its definitely annoying! Glen Washington (Snap Judgment) is so smooth, I also like Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji (Code Switch). 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. Its so common and I cannot believe speakers do NOT hear this on playback?!? For example someone says I went to the store, then the gas station, and then got something to eat. Last week, Slate Lexicon Valley podcaster (and NPR On the Media host) Bob Garfield lamented a frightening tic invading American speech. Okayone more and Im done. I also blame Britney Spears. Dont do that-ah! Its so annoying-gah!. Drives me nuts. 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. Another more recent pattern I hear most often by women is speaking in the low register of their voice. Some words are not meant to have all the letters pronounced. The bulk of revenues coming from programming fees, grants from foundations or business entities, contributions and sponsor-ships. I wonder if there is a name for this yet? This one comes at the end of sentences, apparently to encourage or sometimes subtly force agreement on the listener. Yes, I understand that my fixated attention on these patterns is what is causing me to be distracted. An awful conversational bridge. She dragged out the word and pitched it higher. When I hear someone at a store or restaurant say something else instead of Have a good one! I thank them for not being like the rest of the robots. 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? So in the workplace and over the airways, especially on leftist networks the use of ENCOURAGE, SUGGEST and URGE etc etc etc. I just wanna know whats the reason behind it so i can try to stop being annoyed hahaha. 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?! Or it can negate what they just said, or preface a criticism or negative comment. I have worked as a journalist for over 25 years, and I do not work in television for a reason. I like to call this Laundry Listing because it is like they are giving you this boring laundry list of things. But those persons might find it hard to get a high-paying job. She currently sings with Summer Parfait, a jazz band including fellow NPR employees Chris Joyce and James Willetts. Hayes, you say right?, but how do I know whether I agree with you or not until you actually make the statement?. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Debbie Grattan is a top-rated professional female voice over talent with more than 25 years of experience delivering voice over services worldwide. I hear it all of the time especially as I live in a very affluent, lily white area. Dont get me started on the vocal fry. Everything is now amazing. upspeak, vocal fry, constant buzzwords, overworked filler phrases, etc. Recently, I went onto YouTube to look for videos of the late actress Conchata Ferrell, and I found an interview with her and co-star Holland Taylor. Did college professors never say.hey, thats annoying and unprofessional? I dont watch the show often, but find the interaction interesting & noticed the speech differences early on. 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. Its bad enough to hear it in speech but I recently received an email that began with these words. I had to fight my own brain! Yep, that's right. (Or should be). I put my own example of me saying it in this Youtube link: It sounds so phony . Hey, buddy if you dont stop telling me to look, Ill just have to decline to listen. Person 2: So South African farmers are facing difficult times nowadays Hansen earned her MFA in Acting from Brandeis University, and has additionally studied in New York and France, at the Guthrie Theatre, and at Studio Theatre Conservatory. I cant keep track of the number of very interesting podcasts with important messages that Ive had to turn off because of the horrible vocal fryyyyyyyy. You know This phrase is increasingly being usedat the beginning of the sentence as a lead-in. I felt as though I learned something today. ta instead of to I see it in newscasts all the time being used by educated people. An overheard conversation: The other day I was walkiiiiiing, and, like, this dude flicked a cigarette butt on the graaa-ound, and I said, hey! So, like, gag me with a spoon, you know? If you pronounce the T (soft or hard) in button, youll get some strange glances, because literally no one here pronounces it that way. I am so tired of women trying to sound like little girls and drawing out their s sounds. Ive noticed that, too. hide caption. 4) #pubradiovoice Sitting in host chair for first time I channeled white voice from Midwest and lost my own. We can expect the children of millennials to pass annoying speech patterns on to their children. New words, why not? 3) Ordering at a restaurant or the like, saying Ill DO the instead of lll order the or Ill have the. As a young woman who sometimes subconsciously dips into this lower vocal register, I don't even notice when radio reporters speak with vocal fry. 2) Adding Sh sound to words starting with ST, as mentioned in earlier comment. Watch ANY interview with a woman and they do this. 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. 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? 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!. Please. we had a surprise english test? 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. More on that idea here. May I direct my fellow annoyed speech watchers to a major culprit leading to these speech patterns? 4) Replacing the good old annoying no problem with the nearly arrogant no worries. 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. So, tomorrow Ill apply for the job. Not fine. Budden for BUTTON bugs the hell out of me. Gosh ny chief hates include the words we are expected to use in public so we do not appear too assertive or pushy. And also have heard does that make sense? from one particular Millenial. Sanders wishes listeners would be less reactionary and more open when they hear voices they find unfamiliar or even unpleasant. She helps people who find they sound monotone, sing-songy or low-energy. If you really sit down and read every word its a fascinating phenomenon. Just stop! You asked your readers what we would like for you to include in your next video. The biggest one that I hear it in is when celebrities say singer. When he was starting out, he found editors "strip[ping] away [his] character" by removing vernacular and colloquialisms that felt unique to him. It totally baffles me. Language is too rich. 2001 - 2023 Debbie Grattan Voiceover Talent | Site Map | Privacy Policy. https://youtu.be/gGEit7Fg9HU. I wondered if I was alone in my discomfort. "I thought it felt strange to have a voice that did not sound like me reporting on the most powerful people in the world. Chris Beck in his article in SpliceToday.com describes it best, "Michael Barbaro of the New York Times' The Daily podcast, sounds like he's in his death throes in the final two words of every sentence he speaks, and then he's able to miraculously revive himself instantly to begin the next one. Like any job, radio journalism requires training. And then those styles get copied and go viral and pretty soon you hear it everywhere. She has been a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild since 2005. Thank you so much for validating my comments to my skeptical wife. 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. Thanks for your comment! Like yourself, Im thinking its a trend. would. If you can even record a sample of it and then create a short little video that you can upload to Youtube so its easy to share the audio, that would be good too. Privacy Policy. I want the people representing my company to be PROFESSIONAL. If you cant say it right how can you spell it correctly. (Said in a condescending nerd voice: So. 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. NOW, I substitute. Videos, I get by with closed-caption options, otherwise just NO. Its far from the only silent letter in spoken English. benefit, I wish to now address your repeated use of the term so But what to do with them then? But journalists can sound clear without all sounding the same. Its definitely whiny, and its annoying as hell to my ears. The best example is stuDENT. On those rare occasions when I hear an interview with someone who is profoundly lacking all of these five patterns, it is such a breath of fresh air! How do these people even get the job? Maybe it is that when I hear those tones I think Im about to be bitten. "When you're critiquing a voice, you're saying, 'I don't like the thing that is you on the radio,' " Karen Duffin, a co-host and reporter for Planet Money, told me. You know, the best way to find out the answers is to just Google it.. Like many here, I listen to a good deal of NPR-ish broadcasts and podcasts. Thats what it sounds like and it annoys me. NPR's 50 Great Voices Entertainment: Music Voices. It seems all females under age 35 speak this way. Required fields are marked *. Often theyll be a so tacked on to the start. This usually entails drawn out words: Sooosomething reeeaally horrrribllllle happened todaaayyyy I broke my cat candlllllle.. (Pout face). Is there a name for this type of speaking? Id love to know how it happens. Would my friends laugh if I developed the chirpy voice? Ayesha Rascoe is involved in most of the National Public Radio programs. I came here to see if anyone else had noticed that young women are suddenly dropping the T sound in the middle of wordsor if maybe theyd been doing it all along and I only just noticed and am now hearing it everywhere. Its like an italian accent, but not that exactly cuz i can resist the italian english accent, but not this habit my friends do cuz i know theyre not italian. She has performed in television, film, stage, voiceovers, and commercials. Most of us know the way we speak may change depending what social situation were in. Its a good question.. uuuh-eem.. if we look at the sortve.. cultural implications.. implications.. we we find that people.. generally are all victims of being annoying.. The dropping of the T sound in the middle of words Ki**en, Bu**on is all over the place on radio and TV. 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.. Fabulous opinions everybody: a terrific discussion! 1. Uptalk, especially, when talking to a CSR at your bank or other professional organization. Find the placement of your hum where the lips are the buzziest and most tingly. Second one: the pin/pen merger. Initially I read your comment as a knock on the Canadian pronunciation of sorry. It is so rehearsed and not natural. One day Im sure Ill lose my job after losing my temper with a patient. Ive noticed the inflection is often followed by movement, such as a slight head tilt, nod, hands, or shift of the eyes, presumably as an emphasis. Especially when hearing service providers use it after customers express thanks. It may be a form of ageism, but there is truth to every stereotype. "If you sound like America, then it's America that's talking. I have been trying to figure out why so so many people in TV commercials speak with a lisp. Agreed, Paula. Button, mountains Stoooop with the glottal stop! At least we can take comfort knowing that some of these annoying fillers indeed die out eventually. Where Youre welcome implies that you went out of your way and accept their thanks as your praise. Heres what makes me hit mute/delete on any podcast, youtube speaker, Radio, etc. You two have made so many excellent points! This is why I refuse to hire young people! This was. It feels very much like assumed humility and manipulation. By saying that (usually at the end of a sentence) it prevents someone else from talking or contributing their 2 cents, waiting for whatever follows the But.uh. Thanks for acknowledging this- I dont feel so insane anymore. A year ago I started a list of new words and phrases starting to appear in last 20 years. Thats the main reason why most adults eventually decide its in their best interests to lose the bad habits. Politicians and reporters insist on saying Look before spewing a profound statement. Maybe this has already been mentioned, but I find it a bit irksome when someone emphasizes the obvious by saying, Hello! As in, Everyone knows the Earth is round. 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. There are several blogs online, written by women who think society needs to stop being critical of their way of talking; i.e. A speech pattern where every word is delivered with careful measure and staccato pauses, as if every thought being expressed is incredibly complex? Dont get me started on LIKE. The most annoying speech patterns are those of condescending people educated beyond thier intellect. Its so distracting! 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