Do you vocal fry?

WoodPush

Pusher of wood

Culture

15 Dec 11

WoodPush

Pusher of wood

Los Gatos, CA

Joined: 03 Mar 11
Moves: 5760

15 Dec 11

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http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/vocal-fry-creeping-into-us-speec.html

Ladies? Anyone gonna fess up and admit to vocal frying?

WoodPush

Pusher of wood

Los Gatos, CA

Joined: 03 Mar 11
Moves: 5760

15 Dec 11

Another link, for those of us that don't hang with enough U.S. teenage girls to have any clue what this is like in practice.

Shallow Blue

Joined: 18 Jan 07
Moves: 12477

16 Dec 11

Originally posted by WoodPush
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/vocal-fry-creeping-into-us-speec.html

Ladies? Anyone gonna fess up and admit to vocal frying?

I blame Autotune. It has demolished teenagers' ideas of what a natural voice sounds like.

Richard

sonhouse

Fast and Curious

slatington, pa, usa

Joined: 28 Dec 04
Moves: 53321

19 Dec 11

Originally posted by WoodPush
Another link, for those of us that don't hang with enough U.S. teenage girls to have any clue what this is like in practice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsE5mysfZsY

That was funny! I heard a 56 year old female executive, the president of the New York Times talk that way in an interview, it was really disconcerting. I don't think she even knew she sounded like that.