"Vocal Fry"...???

[miroslav]

I didn't they had a name for this style of speaking used by girls and young women.


https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/naomi-wolf-urges-young-women-to-stop-the-vocal-fry-125286965553.html

 

[Greg_L]

Dude this is an old pop culture problem with reality TV junkies. I corrected my kids a long time ago at the first hint of them talking like that. It's so retarded.

 

[miroslav]

I've heard it many times in speech...also the classic Valley Girl up-swing on the end of words/sentences...I just hadn't seen the term "vocal fry" before.

 

[Greg_L]

I fucking hear it constantly. My kids friends talk like that. I fucking can't stand it. And "like". Holy shit every other word is like. They turn a 4 word sentence into a fucking paragraph with all the fucking likes they say now. The valley girls were nothing compared to kids now.

 

[miroslav]

Not to mention the other common speech fillers...."you know" and "ahh" after every other word.

 

[Greg_L]

Like is like still like the worst.

 

[Armistice]

"Random" - the all purpose descriptive term

 

[notCardio]

As much as I agree with you all, with jugs like that she can talk any way she wants to to me.

 

[Greg_L]

"Random" - the all purpose descriptive term

Lol. Yes, that's another one. Kids think everything is random. But I suppose it is when you have exactly jack shit for life experience to draw from.

 

[notCardio]

As much as I agree with you all, with jugs like that she can talk any way she wants to to me.

BTW, I was referring to Katy Perry there.

 

[famous beagle]

I just heard this term the other day too. I thought it was such a strange term for it. Apparently, it's also known as a "creak," which makes a little more sense to me. And yes, I think it sounds ridiculous as well.

Another pet peeve of the younger generation is how they use "literally" to mean ... well ... "figuratively." "I was literally going out of my mind!" No ... no you weren't.

 

[gecko zzed]

Can't say its anything I've lost sleep over.

 

[jonny deep]

I just heard this term the other day too. I thought it was such a strange term for it. Apparently, it's also known as a "creak," which makes a little more sense to me. And yes, I think it sounds ridiculous as well.

Another pet peeve of the younger generation is how they use "literally" to mean ... well ... "figuratively." "I was literally going out of my mind!" No ... no you weren't.

Uproar as OED includes erroneous use of 'literally' - Telegraph

 

[Armistice]

I talk with vocal fry naturally.... I knew if I lived long enough, I'd be in on the ground floor of a trend. Now... a sex change is required, as apparently this is only trendy for chicks... I'll be back shortly.

 

[jimistone]

I fucking hear it constantly. My kids friends talk like that. I fucking can't stand it. And "like". Holy shit every other word is like. They turn a 4 word sentence into a fucking paragraph with all the fucking likes they say now. The valley girls were nothing compared to kids now.

LOL
That's what the middle aged parents were saying about the teenaged hippies in the late 60s.
"Every other word is "like".

welcome to oldcootsville.

 

[Greg_L]

LOL
That's what the middle aged parents were saying about the teenaged hippies in the late 60s.
"Every other word is "like".

welcome to oldcootsville.

I'm fine with that. Millennials are absolute fucking morons, and I'm fine if thinking that makes me an old coot.

 

[gecko zzed]

HR is not an exclusive old men's club. Posts need to be appropriate for the wide range of people that visit this site. So I got rid of a few.

 

[Greg_L]

HR is not an exclusive old men's club.

Are you sure about that? There's not one active female here, and lots of old coots. I don't know whether that's funny or sad.

 

[gecko zzed]

Are you sure about that? There's not one active female here, and lots of old coots. I don't know whether that's funny or sad.

Maybe it's because all the females have been repulsed and left.

 

[Greg_L]

Maybe it's because all the females have been repulsed and left.

Could be! Old men's clubs can be pretty repulsive.