Vocal Fry, the Newest Culture War Battleground

Started by Admiral Yi, June 11, 2025, 03:06:14 PM

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HVC

#15
June 12, 2025, 02:44:03 AM
Never really noticed it, though I'm sure I've heard it. It's funny though, every few decades a new hate for voice stuff seems to happen. Everyone hated valley girl talk for a while.
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Razgovory

#18
June 12, 2025, 09:47:15 AM
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

crazy canuck

#19
June 12, 2025, 10:20:44 AM
Interesting, I would not have thought it started that long ago. I didn't encounter someone using a vocal fry until three years ago.

Crazy_Ivan80

#20
June 12, 2025, 02:36:36 PM
Annoying but not more than that I guess

celedhring

#21
June 18, 2025, 07:20:03 AM Last Edit: June 18, 2025, 07:24:39 AM by celedhring
I remember when years ago I had a throat infection and my voice was super-creaky. Women told me they found my voice so sexy, I wish I got that infection again  :(

I always associate that manner of speech with old-timey British villains, now I learn that somehow it has turned into yet another "let's bash women for something" battleground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpC4a6jCxSA

Valmy

#22
June 18, 2025, 09:33:04 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on June 12, 2025, 10:20:44 AMInteresting, I would not have thought it started that long ago. I didn't encounter someone using a vocal fry until three years ago.

I have known a few vocal fry people my whole life. Though I did not know that word back in the olden analog times.

I definitely remember this being something the internet was obsessed with back around 2014 or so.
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Caliga

#23
June 20, 2025, 11:45:12 AM
There's a new guy at work and he has some of the worst vocal fry I've ever encountered... it's so bad I try to avoid talking to him and just have him IM/email me since it's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.  I can tolerate it just fine from most people, too... it's just so extreme in this guy's case.
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crazy canuck

#24
June 20, 2025, 02:24:39 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 20, 2025, 11:45:12 AMThere's a new guy at work and he has some of the worst vocal fry I've ever encountered... it's so bad I try to avoid talking to him and just have him IM/email me since it's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.  I can tolerate it just fine from most people, too... it's just so extreme in this guy's case.

Go all Loudermilk on his ass, and send us the video.

Legbiter

#25
June 21, 2025, 02:49:09 PM
What? Nobody is going to mention the upspeak menace?  :huh: This is intolerable, especially when done by males.

Also, since we're on the subject of intolerable speech patterns, what the hell is going on with the Swedish language and the new whimsical garden gnome sound? Like WTF, what is going on?  :hmm:
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Razgovory

#26
June 21, 2025, 03:57:30 PM
What the hell are you talking about?  Swedish language?  What kind of nonsense is this?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

mongers

#27
June 21, 2025, 04:34:08 PM
So does Tom Waite qualify or is he given an exemption due to artistic merit?
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Legbiter

#28
June 21, 2025, 05:22:18 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on June 21, 2025, 03:57:30 PMWhat the hell are you talking about?  Swedish language?  What kind of nonsense is this?

I'm making  fun of The Brain, etc, regarding certain Swedish morphological sound changes that sound to the outsider just like...and I just killed the joke. :(
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Admiral Yi

#29
June 21, 2025, 05:28:37 PM
Quote from: Legbiter on June 21, 2025, 05:22:18 PMI'm making  fun of The Brain, etc, regarding certain Swedish morphological sound changes that sound to the outsider just like...and I just killed the joke. :(

It's a mercy killing.
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