Connie, I keep it because I get free calls to Europe. I suppose I could change the number, but I don't use it for anything so why bother?

vocal growl thing. That is not the right name. But it is really grating on my ears today.

Vocal fry. It's grating all of the time.

I'm sorry it's escalating, Sue.

Wishing you decent human beings and no more tooth drama, -t.

Thanks all. It seems silly to be bothered by it, but bothered by it I am.

I don't think I hear vocal fry. Every time I hear an example I cannot figure out what they are describing.

Does not seem silly to me, Maria, that's a gut punch no matter how much you rationally know why it happened.

To my ear, vocal fry sounds like when your throat kind of closes up at the end of a sentence when you're starting to run out of breath.

It doesn't seem silly at all, Maria. It hits hard.

Isn't vocal fry the same thing as Batman voice, or that just my weird association? I know that there was a whole thing a few months back about vocal fry and how it was annoying, or at least annoying when women did it, and my reaction was, "Batman voice?" I didn't realize it was thing people did to sound cool.

I find it annoying no matter who does it, if they do it a lot.

But am I getting it right, what it sounds like?

Timelies all!

Totally spaced(npi) on the super blood eclipse moon. Can I blame sleep dep? (Also still not feeling so hot- this time tummy issues)

Vocal Fry example: [link]

See, that sounds like something I should notice.

ETA Batman voice, that is, I can't listen to the link at work.

I don't think Batman qualifies as vocal fry, although now I am laughing my butt off imagining Batman using vocal fry.