I didn’t see a video link at the site.
its quirky but I don’t find it annoying or something worth making fun over
She sounds like she was taught English by a Dalek.
A bit annoying. So what. That sounds like she’s trying to put on her ‘empowered voice’. Iffen I was single I’d probably avoid her like that he plague. But if it works for her?
She sounds less horrible than a California or New Jersey accent.
But that is just me
I thought of Forrest Gump while watching her for some reason.
Found a vid of her a little bit longer with amateur critique:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uofvHnxYuTA
Probably an act. She probably thinks it makes her feel like an empowered feminist. Maybe a trans-carrot...or something.
I’m no linguistics expert (perhaps there are some in this august compendium), but it sounds like she is from Maine, or some part of it. Hers is exaggerated, but I think they all sound like that up there, ending their sentences like that.
Her voice reminds me of an Information lady’s when you dialed 411, back in the day. Maybe she thought it apropos for Jeopardy.
There is a crime author, Harold Schecter, that I first became familiar with on his frequent appearances of Discovery ID’s Deadly Women. Anyway, he frequently raises his voice, just slightly, at the end of a lot of his sentences. Unlike the Jeopardy woman, having just become familiar with her from your thread and a previous thread on FR from earlier, I find his voice enjoyable to listen to.
This is a talk by him...if you scroll in and listen carefully for a bit, you can hear his unusual vocal pattern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb9Banps5XE
Made me cringer when she would say, so and so for 4 hundredddddddddddddddddddddd.
Made me cringe when she would say, so and so for 4 hundredddddddddddddddddddddd.
She drove me crazy, too. I speculated that she has some inferiority which she assuages by elongating her speech to keep the floor, but my wife the retired special education teacher has heard this before and suggests she may be somewhere on the “autism spectrum.” Generally she did this when announcing how many dollars she’d bet, which anticipates an upcoming event (the clue) and makes me think the unfinished action is related; but sometimes she omitted it, which I take to be her conscious effort to avoid it. Glad she finally lost.