Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
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.
Is the creaky voice thing people were talking about a while back the same thing as vocal fry?
Probably.
I think I tend to use vocal fry a lot when I'm tired.
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.)
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!
He-Man and Wonder Woman? Because why not?
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.
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.
When I hear vocal fry I think of Benita Buttrell's asides to the camera on In Living Color.