It hurts my ears! 3. 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. My husband listens to a lot of podcasts, particularly enjoying them while out driving or working in the yard. Charlotte, dropping the g has been around since I was a young teen, in the early 70s. Im British and cant say Ive ever heard anyone say Yes, no to answer a question, so Im pretty sure its not trendy amongst British speakers. And look, weyak, yak, yak.. 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. 5) substituting Im here like or Hes here like for I said or he said. Noticably used televangelist pastors and political speeches. Love this article and the comments! I was thinking maybe it was a Mexican/American thing (I am Canadian). "You have an opportunity as a listener to expand your worldview by hearing all different types of voices," Sanders said. When he was starting out, he found editors "strip[ping] away [his] character" by removing vernacular and colloquialisms that felt unique to him. More common, is hearing someone speak with various combinations of several of these patterns appearing in just one sentence! A long list of complaints I violently agree with. Its feels good to know others are as annoyed as I. I seem to see/hear it all the time nowadays, normally just after someone has clearly explained the facts around something, but the person reading/hearing it feels the need to demand the person giving out the information to Wait! so they can then ask them What?, as though what theyve just heard is complete nonsense, simply because they havent, (or so it comes across), been able to comprehend it the first time around. My aversion to imbecile-generated sounds has made me reconsider certain career paths. The point is not worth discussing because of what was just said. But its when I hear someone who has the astonishing ability to combine those two very irritating trends, as well as throwing in the recent social media driven pointless inane phrases so; I feel like, OMG! etc, that I terminate my involvement in the conversation immediately. I thought that I was the only person who had picked up on the stuDENT pronunciation. thanks Rebecca for chiming in with your comment from your perspective as an educator/coach. I have to bite my tongue and let off steam when I hear Australians speak. While listeners sometimes write to us specifically about a particular voice they don't like, a survey of the emails we receive reveals a pattern. It seems to be the new normal. If the person is on TV, I have to change the channel. Awesome and absolutely. It seems to me it takes more effort to speak a word without its T sound in the middle than to speak the word properly! But what to do with them then? Is it hormones in food? Finally, it is a bid to keep the floor. I dont know how these people get voice over jobs and why anyone would use them. Since I watch a lot of network tv, I hear this and other abominations on commercials, especially. My dad was from Canada of English heritage. They read out various super-chats & live comments, chat about various media happenings, but one host, Francis Foster (they are both stand up comedians too) repeatedly says absolutely in response to everything. There are two in particular that drive me insane: different than and misnomer.. Dont run into nobody! (a parent to a child) Am I alone in this? Five lines from the bottom, auto correct changed Sanskrit to sandscript. thats Mineah! walkeen instead of walking. Its just laziness (and somehow its become cool to sound lazy or bored). Also, old hardly known by an average individual, words, which are being now widely used. 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. Do they know how ridiculous they appear???? AAHHH!!! caused your repeated use of the vague term, space, without a specific Not only I improperly placed but me used at the start of a phrase. Even politics reporter Detrow, who doesn't hear from listeners about his voice, said he evaluates his own interviews. I am Jack and this? Please. My Wife just rolls her eyes and says get a life lol. Is this the new trend? Drop the phrases now and you can think of it as an easy,inexpensive way to outshine 85 percent of your competitors in that next job interview. These kids are expected to go out in the real world and magically transform into people they were once never expected to be. I mean, like, Im literally, like, here. I had to fight my own brain! Thanks for confirming that its a new thing. We receive a regular stream of complaints about how reporters and hosts talk on air. The vast majority of voice complaints that come into our office concern women and reporters of color. For example, mou- uhn, instead of moun-tain. The first example makes full-grown adults sound like a toddler who cant yet say his/her ts.. She has performed in television, film, stage, voiceovers, and commercials. The most common is right? when used at the end of a sentence. 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. Cookie Notice Listen out for it ; itll shock you just how common it is! Auto-formatting removed the numerous spaces between the words in my last sentence, rendering the example less than illustrative. And another one is annudder (another). I understand these may be hip ways of speaking these days , but they actually detract from the message. 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 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. Leaving the Ts out of a word, as in bu on or ki en. Alison MacAdam April 30, 2015. Credit: Emily Jan. Would you please counsel ME on it? Great job! It seems a convemient time period for my schedule at this tiiime, Up talk is especially annoying when the speaker is listing things, as in those pillow commercials:, I sleep better? Its far from the only silent letter in spoken English. Also umm, like, and ya know interspersed in many informal AND formal conversations. The worst is sort of. Initially I thought it was a precious Mid-Atlantic way of speaking from years gone by Gore Vidal was a sort of intellectual savant. Then as it was used repeatedly in the same program by these pundits I realized it was just some new ridiculous-sounding cautious way of not overstepping. Youve covered it all, including the Yes, no stupidity. But instead it sounds like I went to the STOre, then the gas STAtion, and then got something to EAT.. I am so happy that I found this website! It grated on my ears. ta instead of to They even create elaborate spoofs, like this send-up of the "annoying" podcast voice. Im glad to discover I am not alone. I even heard some say go away-aahh or similar uses. 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. Its my second or third. Its funny but also sad that the ways of the world, and so many traditions and really important things are not being passed down to the next generation. Its as if speakers dont care whether their grammar is correct. Omitting ts from wordsthe one word that brought it to my attention was moun or as we like to refer to it as mountain. Hansen has taught techniques including Shakespeare, musical theater, and microphone and audition skills to children and adults of all ages. They must be changed Out. THAT new vaccine, THAT plane crash, THAT police shooting its really getting annoying. I am forever hearing me and my friends instead of my friends and I. I agree though, like the tattoo girl on the Twix commercial that spells NO REGERTS and then says Sawree in that whiny sarcastic voice. Lately, I have noticed by newscasters and others on TV the word expecially, which of course does not exist. Im not sure if our primary education system is to blame for not putting enough emphasis on the spoken (or written) word for our younger generations, or whether it is more of a socialization and modeling of behavior that is rampant. a lot of people I know are using the word ACTUALLY as a filler word. I had to go to the stoooore, pick up the dry cleaniiiiiing, get some grocerrrrrriiiies, walk the doooooooog. etc. is it hipster talk? I dont watch a lot of TV; but when I do I have to mute all the commercials. What brought me here was the irritating way young females pronounce thank you. AND.. hitting the G in words too hard I.E. Language is too rich. I want to post it on Facebook. There is a good example of a migraine remedy commercial intoned by Khloe Kardashian. No. Its refreshing to hear someone else with similar tendencies, calling out the younger generation on so many of these types of habits, which, in effect, butcher the language and the beauty of its intended delivery. Sorrey and sorry. Yet many here dont seem to question their own speech patterns or prejudices. I mean, where did this one come from anyway? 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. 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. Sounds unnatural. They probably started out as texting shortcuts, but the two I cant stand are LOL crammed into every sentence, and OMG at the beginning of every sentence. Dont get me started on LIKE. Should school lectures take place on the moon, or just remotely via satellite? Investigating these complaints opens a window into a long-running debate in the public radio community: what or more precisely, who should NPR sound like? You can shream ashuss g t v. The 2021 Dream Home is looking good and wanting you to win it. Heres one that you didnt feature maybe it doesnt count but its wrong and its annoying. Kudos. I am a bit more forgiving if English isnt your first language but otherwise its incredibly annoying. Or, as my best friend calls it: the hissed s. For example, the word is news, not noose. Aural homogeneity discourages listeners and future radio-makers who don't fit the mold. And also SORREY, instead of saying sorry Many men do this also, although its usually not as noticeable as creaky voice in women, because mens voice are deeper to begin with so the pitch drop doesnt contrast as much with their normal pitch/phonation. 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 have to wonder if schools still teach sentence diagrams. Yep, that's right. (And yes, she also hears a lot of feedback on her own voice.). Some time around the late 90s, early 2000s, it was taken off the graded subjects. Also the northeastern dis, dat, dem and does for this, that, them and those. If something is different from something else, from is the only word that works. Ive forgone many a great podcast topic due to vocal fry or overuse of right. 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? 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. She is one of the favorite voices in the NPR. And listeners have seriously strong feelings about this stuff. Seriously, though, get that ignorant, superficial, pseudointellectual sentence-padding out of here. 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. Others, over exaggerated, more perfect, funner and many more. We occasionally hear from listeners who critique what they perceive as the homogeneity of on-air voices. Watch ANY interview with a woman and they do this. YESSSS!,,,,,, the staccato speech is driving me away from tv. fer instead of for (are they hillbillies?!) 3 length vs. lenth, H (long a and ch) vs. (long a and shuss), streaming vs. shreaming. So annoying. Thanks for any suggestions. A lazy speech habit that grates on my nerves is the use of Also too. Right!? These are examples of bad grammar, mispronounced words, and slang. They dont even allow their white announcers in Texas to sound like theyre from Texas! The author ends a sentence that I assume was not a quote of someone else, with these words; look something like.. this. ? Look at any Hugh Grant movie, and youll see. Me too! Yes indeed, these annoying trends are now common to stupid people the world over believe me, mainly most likely due to easier access to media such as world news media, social media, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, self obsessed attention seeking wannabe famous so called influencers, etc. And please stop using hangin out and you guys.. Thuh, preceding a word starting with a vowel! We dont pronounce the t in soften, of fasten, or glisten. Im like my husband uses it for every single thing. I want the people representing my company to be PROFESSIONAL. For example, Im from the southeastern USA. Stop adding, subtracting, and manipulating language to influence or control the listener. One the first of second episodes of Star Trek Discovery, I think thats the name, the captain says, thish traitor. This is currently the speech trend that is driving me insane, even more so sometimes than vocal fry, which really bugs me. That happened to Mike Cooper, a voice-over artist who recently stumbled upon his voice being used without his knowledge for AI. 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. Can you point to the bu**un? "Like" is a sign of a relaxed conversation. 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. Other specialties include female narration voice overs for corporate narration, web videos, tutorials, explainer videos and technical medical narration. Allison Shelley/NPR Reporters get these complaints directly, too. Once you learn a second language its hard to speak it incorrectly. 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. Everything is now amazing. 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