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After years of wondering what caused the last couple of generations of kids to start speaking in such an irritating manner, like silly children, I finally made a short audio recording with an overview of the bad speech habits of young people and brief advice for breaking those habits.

I'm presently listening to Rush Limbaugh. He has been reporting on the situation in Ferguson, Missouri. He was quoting a reporter then started mocking her vocal style. In case you heard it, the vocal style is known as Vocal FryI talked to a person at AT&T on the telephone the other day and she started doing this 'vocaln fry' with me...I just started laughing. She was taken aback when I told her what she was doing and how silly she sounded.BTW, I read somewhere that it has it's original roots with the migrants from Oklahoma that went to California during...

A curious vocal pattern has crept into the speech of young adult women who speak American English: low, creaky vibrations, also called vocal fry. Pop singers, such as Britney Spears, slip vocal fry into their music as a way to reach low notes and add style. Now, a new study of young women in New York state shows that the same guttural vibration—once considered a speech disorder—has become a language fad. Vocal fry, or glottalization, is a low, staccato vibration during speech, produced by a slow fluttering of the vocal chords (listen here). Since the 1960s, vocal fry has been...