[Dallas59]

Good Example Here

[Chickensoup]

One of my daughters does this, she sounds like a 3PPD smoker

[GOP Poet]

Bookmark

[jonrick46]

I must be a result of the brain fried on drugs.

[patriot08]

Annoying.

One of the most annoying things to me is a voice that constantly sounds like they need to clear their throat.
Example; Rachel Ray

[Ditter]

I think I understand what you are talking about. I have noticed that young women sound like their voice is coming from deep in their throat (gravely) and yet it still has a sort of nasal(flat) sound to it(if that makes sense). I really hate it, it is sort of dead sounding.

I have also noticed that a lot of commercials on TV (especially for SUBURU) will have a person singing in a fuzzy non professional singer kind of voice with a string instrument of some kind as the only accompaniment. I think the ads are targeted towards women who talk in the “fry voice”.

[Chode]

can't be worse than than damn Upspeak... i that that, sounds like every sentence is a question?

[Excellence]

Speaking “frog.”
Everything old is new again.

[mcmuffin]

Evolution of the “Valley Girl”.

[mylife]

I would prefer fried fish and chips, with lashings of salt and malt vinegar.

[TalBlack]

I’ve been noticing this for a good year now. Drives me nuts. Dumb ass affectation.

[Huck]

One day while I was out walking,
I chanced upon two women talking,
Their voices grew low,
Frightfully so!—
‘Til they both sounded like Stephen Hawking.

[Hawthorn]

Maybe it’s a pseudo-intellectual reaction against “upspeak” — i.e., a way to show that you’re NOT a valley girl!

And IMHO, it’s not nearly as bad as the growing fad whereby almost every sentence starts with the word “so” — a phenomenon that probably began among the professorate and has now trickled down to recent college grads. Most of the OWS protestors seem to talk this way.

Moreover, neither of these grating habits is as awful as Billy Jeff Clinton’s old seasonal refrain, “Merry Christmas from Hillary and I!”

[Revolting cat!]

Are we not devo?

[Revolting cat!]

How did it start? Somewhere in the TV land fer shore!

[Semper911]

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[sockmonkey]

When she speaks, does Drew Barrymore sound like the “fry” to which you referred?

[Prospero]

It's an affectation, truly. I hear it used in the place of "ah's" and "Uh's" as a way of preventing an interruption.

It's suffocating, and worthy of ridicule.

[left that other site]

I have to fight with my vocal students to keep them from doing this. When they sing Pop songs, they imitate this affectation from contemporary vocalists. I find it especially inappropriate when they apply this to Spiritual Music, as it sounds like they are being “sexual”. It is REALLY disgusting when 8 year olds do it!

[aruanan]

I thought what Bobcat Goldthwait did was vocal fry.