'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into US Speech 331
sciencehabit writes "A curious vocal pattern has crept into the speech of young adult women who speak American English: low, creaky vibrations, also called vocal fry. Pop singers, such as Britney Spears, slip vocal fry into their music as a way to reach low notes and add style. Now, a new study of young women in New York state shows that the same guttural vibration — once considered a speech disorder — has become a language fad."
Just what we need (Score:3, Funny)
coming up next (Score:5, Funny)
Next we'll be hearing autotune in everyday speech.
Maybe it is from (Score:5, Funny)
Brushing their teeth with a bottle of Jack?
Marge Simpson did it first (Score:5, Funny)
Marge Simpson did it first
Re:vocal Fry? (Score:5, Funny)
Need a quirky speech style? (Score:4, Funny)
Why not Zoidberg?
Re:"Study of 34 female speakers" (Score:5, Funny)
Surely on a college campus, you can find more than 34 females to do a study on?
Come on guys, no one took the bait on this one?
Re:Nothing new (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nothing new (Score:3, Funny)
Words are like clothes, you mix and match and there isn't any right answer.
Yup, but, just as with clothes, there are certainly WRONG answers
Re:Just what we need (Score:4, Funny)
Are you by any chance from descended from Cretans?
No, probably Goedel. :)
Re:Nothing new (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, you know, I was, like, reading your note when, um, I realized, you know, that you confused vocal patterns with, like, language, you know what I mean.
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Re:Nothing new (Score:5, Funny)
Re:More worrying (Score:4, Funny)
the inability to differentiate between how a word is spoken and how it is spelt ...
You might be in the same club considering you harped on about that and missed:
the kind of accent you might here from upper class