What’s the appeal of that podcast again?

    • boboblaw [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Not sure I know what vocal fry is, but I just googled it and apparently a good example is Chomsky's creaky voice? Is this an American thing?

        • boboblaw [he/him, they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Is it an american thing to overly fixate on it? Like dang, there's gotta be better reasons to dislike red scare.

          Edit: So I went on YouTube to find some examples and instead found some infuriating boomers freaking out at the way young people talk these days. Pretty funny that the speech pattern they insist "makes you sound dumb" is shared by the most famous linguist alive (and at least one lesser known one).

        • Nintendude31 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Vocal Fry irritates me, I’m sorry. Quit trying to defend it

          • mxnoodles [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I like to make vocal fry jokes with the rest of them but “quit trying to defend it” - like, it’s just the way people (predominately young American women) talk? Aside from like, speech therapy or intensive effort, people don’t really have a choice how their speech develops, it’s not like a put-on affectation to irritate you specifically.

            I mean, I’ve definitely had people’s voices trigger some of my sensory/auditory sensitivity issues, but I also recognize that’s 100% my problem to deal with.

            • Nintendude31 [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              It’s irritating dude, I don’t know what to tell you.

              The question mark thing after talk was irritating as well.