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The amount of vocal fry on NPR has become as bad as Mary Louise Kelly's dry mouth clicking. And once you hear it, you can't unhear it.
by joezydeco 6y ago
The amount of vocal fry on NPR has become as bad as Mary Louise Kelly's dry mouth clicking. And once you hear it, you can't unhear it.
- SamBam 6y agoRather, once you've randomly decided that that's a horrible thing. Men (and women) have spoken with vocal fry for the past several millennia, but I don't recall reading of anyone being annoyed by it until recently when everybody decided that millennial women speaking like that on the radio was anathema.
- zimpenfish 6y agoLanguage Log investigated the "vocal fry problem" a few years back. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17489 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17489 "And they want to talk about the crazy ways that young women are speaking. And the first thing they do is attribute it to young women, even though young men are doing it too. So it's a policing of young people, but I think most particularly young women."