100% agree. I speak Malayalam, we have short and long vowels, so when I tried to learn English i was doing the same. Now it all makes sense.

I thought this was about the metal screaming technique :)

Oh this makes my piss boil.

great video

aaaahhhhh😂

The video's AirBnB punchline at the end was hilarious.

I’ve never heard any American pronounce processes like that……🤔

I hate it so much. If you speak with a vocal fry you are my enemy.

Every year at Rocky Horror Picture Show: "What's a Magenturrrrr?!"

I don't like intrusive r. I don't like pronouncing an r where there's no one.

Me, to a female uptalker …” is that a question or a statement ”? …

There is an American accent that adds an "intrusive r" when it's not followed by a vowel. The American Rhode Island (and South eastern Massachusetts) accent adds an R when a sentence or phrase ends in a A sound. Since my name is Alexa, I heard this all the time living there. I was Alexer.

Thank you from the bottom of my soul for this.

I thought this just happened because people ran out of breathe. But ultimately I don't really care about it.

I noticed it too, but I called it the child head voice. They are not in their bodies just their heads. AOC does it. It’s really a lazy voice

Omg! I've been wondering for years why certain, I thought, words irritated me. I blamed words like "important" but in fact it was the speaker.

American accents sound goofy coming from Dr. Lindsey😊. If we ever need to teach English to extraterrestrials, I nominate British English-it’s quite pleasing in contrast with _generic_ American. Although I do think we in the U.S. have some lovely accents, I don’t think standard American does us any favors with global perception.

The reason for the 5 vowel strategy is that it's the basis of our (American) phonetical education.

I have heard some US southerners (maybe louisiana) say City like Cidy, particularly in saying “City Boys.”

As a native Finnish speaker, I would suspect that some of this is because in Finnish at least some vowels (esp. Ah) are pronounced pretty far back in the throat, which I suppose contributes to talking with a low pitch to begin with, close to vocal fry. Just a thought.

Vocal fry annoys me because it makes the users all sound the same as if they are attempting to hide behind anonymity.

It strikes me how much written language informs how we think about speech. The difference between "a" and "an" is apparent, but the differences between forms of "the" are obscure!

It's anti-British slander I tell ya

I only hate vocal fry when paired with other annoying speech patterns. Many people on the video exhibiting vocal fry didn’t bother me, but some totally did; however, the vocal fry was not the most noticeable annoyance.

Maybe wasnt fake for the movies, but people like Thurston Howell the 111 is a fake accent that i can imitate.

My theory is the "fry" came about with girls or women trying to lower the pitch in their voice to make them sound more authoritative or masculine. Men do it naturally but women cannot. However they're actually lowering their IQs. Then I realized it was an extension of the stupidly artificial (California,) Valley Girl talk of the last quarter of the 20th c. with the fry added on. The dumbing down of the English language thanks to the Kardashians and the Valley Girls. Btw.....great educational video!!!

No eyed deer is a joke of the rhotic varietyr

I hate it.

Or just maybe... The ladies are stressed.. tight throat.. in the situation . Trying to control their volume and tempo... but end up forgetting to breathe deeply enuf..and run out of air too early. Thank you science guy for missing the obvious.. Really... it's obvious... you missed it.

I don't hate the kardashians. I just don't Care about them either way.

Combine it with " valley girl whatEVAAAAR" NOW you have somthing. Extra stupid!!!

I just can’t like stand when American females like say “like” all the time, it’s like so annoying. Dammit…it either is OR isn’t, or learn some adjectives. Or like not. 😊

Get over yourself, there's more important things than how people talk. It's just a unique way of talking....just like the color of your skin. THE PROBLEM IS PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO BE TOO PERFECT.... NOT EVERYONE LIKES to look at ugly people when they talk too.

its so GRATING on the nerves, they think its sexy

I've always thought of it as a lazy way of talking..It's as if I'll use the least amount of effort to speak& annunciate my words..

Why do some English speakers pronounce the sword as su-ah-ward suward? My own sister says this and we had same parents, same grade school etc so her adult child say su-ah-ward . She says it’s the right way to say it. I don’t think so.

That was incredibly interesting. I subbed straight away!

I watched a video recently on how English stopped being taught using phonics around the late sixties in most English speaking countries. I wonder if the move away from using sounds to teach words allowed for faster shifts in speaking.

Is there a correlation between vocal fry and NPD ?

This voice inflection is amazingly annoying to me. I thought that if you ended your sentences with an upper inflection you could avoid vocal fry. I can see now some people just talk like this. I noticed this at first with Nichole Kessinger in her police interviews and found I could barely make it through the interviews. I love the Loudermilk clip.

As foreigner I thought that extremely irritating sounds is just part of English language speaking itself since i never heard anything like this in other languages yet.

7:11 I'm 💯 with Loudermilk on that!

Have you covered the opposite phenomenon as seen in "an historic"? Particularly in dialects that don't drop their h?

Sounds a bit like whining to me.

Great clips of vocal fry. I'm kind of over this speaking style.

Hi! I can't access the cubedictionary website, is it coming back? I'd like to use your updated and corrected IPA dictionary. Thanks!

You mean speaking correctly.

It always drove me insane but didn't know why until now. Thank you 😊

8:32 For you young'uns that don't get the reference, just google "Victor Borge punctuation".

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