Posted on 12/06/2013 6:06:07 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
I am very keyed into my speech patterns and mannerisms. Today’s youth babble incoherently as their speech patterns take on a lazy mumble in order to fill the air with nonsense to prevent that “awkward silence.”
Our children have been taught not to think critically but to attempt to sound smart. An astute listener will realize how inept our children have become when it comes to verbal communication, and I believe that’s a big reason they see Obama as some great orator while history shows he’s one of the least orally-skilled presidents we’ve ever had.
Serious question:
If a guy has a natural-born effeminate voice, how difficult is it for him to change it, if he wants to?
Anyone ever dealt with this issue, either first, second or third hand?
What do you expect when our drinking water is now contaminated with birth control drugs, something not mentioned by the EPA as they regulate everything else under the sun?
To avoid this, men should drink nothing but beer.
“Like literally.”
As for the men, they do what they learn. There are TOO many boys growing up mostly fatherless. From whom do they learn to be a man? All they have as role models are women, many of them angry at men. Read that as women blaming men for their not being happy.
Fathers are SO important. They teach boys how to deal with adult male authority and they teach girls how to deal with men. Black boys need fathers even more as they teach their sons how to deal with adult WHITE male authority.
Choices.
AMEN!
/johnny
Yep. I shake my head when I hear “my wife wont’ let...”. Isn’t it called marriage? You have no say in what your kid does in life? The commercials and sitcoms of the stupid, useless white father have seeped into our collective consciousness.
I cannot stand that affectation in girls (real women do not talk that way) and if I was conversing with a man who did it I'd be sorely tempted to give him a bitch slap.
Anyone over 35 does not speak that way, regardless of gender.
Anyone ever dealt with this issue, either first, second or third hand?
Well smoking will cause a deeper more "gravely" sound to the voice (in both men and women) in fact many early radio DJ's would chain smoke just to keep their "radio voice". Of course this might not be the healthiest option.... The only other thing I could think of would be to purposefully work on a "stage voice" like character actors due, actually practice talking deeper and more masculine, then eventually it will be done without thinking about it...
Speech therapy can be very effective. But it takes hard work and vigilance for the individual.
You've never been singing in a mead hall, then...
Great post. Spot on.
I have trouble understanding the lazy speech of many young people that is replete with nonsensical fillers such as “like”, “you know”, “totally” and other quasi forms of Valleyspeak. Its as if it takes too much effort to clearly enunciate words.
1. There are many born tenors. Nothing wrong with that. It's what he SAYS and how he says it that is important. Tell him that being a tenor is fine...he can become the next Luciano Pavarotti, the 20th century's FINEST tenor. He did have the tenor voice when speaking.
2. I taught young men and women for 27 years. I noticed the pitch of voices, as some young women are natural altos. NO BIG DEAL. Make sure that no stigma is attached to the natural tenor/alto. Why change what God made? They ought to embrace it and sing the parts. There are a ton of tenor songs as there are alto songs.
Glee clubs, singing groups, whatever, always need tenors.
**TRUTH: The TENOR always gets the best singing parts...and, in opera, the tenor ALWAYS, ALWAYS gets the girl.
HGTV highly gay tv. All gay, all the time.
While I am not certain about having an effeminate voice, when I was a child I had a lisp. It was horribly embarassing when I had to pronounce the TH sound. It took a little bit of speech therapy but by the time I hit my 20s it was more or less gone.... although to this day, I avoid saying the word “sixth”.
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