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aurelia - Sep 28, 2015 2:44:31 pm PDT #6165 of 30003

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Vocal Fry example: [link]

that is not at all what the lady on with Terri Gross sounded like and also not the only way vocal fry is heard. [link]

I think these two samples demonstrate (for me at least) that it isn't the fry but the Paris Hilton affectation that irritates. I do know a couple of people (one man, one woman) whose vocal inflections never leave fry territory and that can be hard to listen to, but most people just dip in and out of it.

The Batman/Cookie Monster voice has more breath support behind it. I think of fry as being more creaky than growly.

I tried to leave work early today because I feel like crap and the woman in the business office refused to sell me a parking pass until 3:00. I thought about sitting in the office coughing until then.

Steph L. - Sep 28, 2015 2:46:46 pm PDT #6166 of 30003

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I think of fry as being more creaky than growly.

Yeah, I think of vocal fry as being the croak sound at the end (but sometimes middle) of words. It doesn't really irritate me.

it isn't the fry but the Paris Hilton affectation that irritates.

Yeah, that needs to DIAF.

-t - Sep 28, 2015 2:47:48 pm PDT #6167 of 30003

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Is the creaky voice thing people were talking about a while back the same thing as vocal fry?

Wikipedia suggests He-man and Teela were a couple. maybe. I have no memory of Teela.

Steph L. - Sep 28, 2015 2:48:41 pm PDT #6168 of 30003

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Is the creaky voice thing people were talking about a while back the same thing as vocal fry?

Probably.

Hil R. - Sep 28, 2015 2:48:54 pm PDT #6169 of 30003

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I think I tend to use vocal fry a lot when I'm tired.

flea - Sep 28, 2015 2:49:09 pm PDT #6170 of 30003

information libertarian

There are, obviously, no Teela Underoos.

He-Man and Skeletor would be SO WRONG. (My brother's fiancee is a nice sorority girl from Dallas.)

Atropa - Sep 28, 2015 2:55:23 pm PDT #6171 of 30003

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Oh maria, I'm so sorry.

OH! Jilli, do NOT scroll down past the video on that page.

Thank you for the warning! I wasn't going to click on the link because of possible spiders, anyway, but warnings are good!

-t - Sep 28, 2015 3:15:35 pm PDT #6172 of 30003

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

He-Man and Wonder Woman? Because why not?

Burrell - Sep 28, 2015 3:22:23 pm PDT #6173 of 30003

Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Vocal Fry example: [link]

I was gonna say that sounds like Valley Girl speak from way back when, and then msbelle said pretty much the same thing.

That other chick sounds more like what I was thinking. That kind of gravelly thing.

Jesse - Sep 28, 2015 4:09:57 pm PDT #6174 of 30003

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is the creaky voice thing people were talking about a while back the same thing as vocal fry?

Yes.

And I swear to god, men use it way more than women (in my office, at least), but only women catch grief for it.

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