to fucking hate, and I mean hate, vocal fry.

[merdde]

I'm watching a documentary and everyone in it speaks with vocal fry probably 85/90% of the time and it's so moronic. Why why is this a thing?

[Degustibusnonestdisputandem1]

Oh yay, Aussie bashing 🙄 (not all of us speak with the upwards inflection anyway)

[Rafflesway]

Well you learn something new every day! 🤔

[MollyYouInDangerGirl]

I didn't know this was a thing but now I've looked it up ITS EXACTLY LIKE HOW ONE OF MY FRIENDS SPEAKS AND HER VOICE HAS ALWAYS GRATED ON ME FOR YEARS! Although she has only done it since she went to uni.

I feel like I'm going to constantly notice this now when anyone speaks haha

[AgnesNaismith]

Oh yay, Aussie bashing 🙄 (not all of us speak with the upwards inflection anyway)

Wonder how many other people read that with the inflection at the end....

[Funkaccino]

The friend from Crazy ex girlfriend does that. Didnt realise it had a name.

[Degustibusnonestdisputandem1]

Well it wouldn't be in my voice then as I don't speak like that, nor do most of my family. It's like people saying they hate certain UK accents (I don't!), it's quite nasty.

[americandream]

Guess what guys. It's vocal CORDS, not chords.......

I lost my voice a few months ago, (for 2 weeks) and found that out. Got to almost 50 thinking it was vocal chords! Weird eh?

[Saggingninja]

Re the Kardashians, their vocal fry is compounded by the blank face and use of the word 'excited' or as they would put it, 'I'm so excyyyyyyyded'.

They're 'excyyyyyyded' about everything.

'So I'm going to have my corns pummeled and I'm rilly rillly excyyyyyded.'

[OwlBeThere]

The Kardashian’s definitely do it on purpose. And you can definitely tell those who do from those who don’t. A small amount of fry is normal in any voice, the excessive use of it with the weird inflection is annoying.
Stacey Dooley I’ve noticed does the rising infection thing in her documentaries making them unwatchable for me. Whilst I live Aussie dramas so it’s absolutely true that it’s not only Aussies or even all Aussies that do it.

[IwantedtobeEmmaPeel]

Oh God, even though I didn't know what the term for this way of speaking was, I guessed exactly what the Op was referring to as it is EVERYWHERE and it's so annoying, lazy and pretentious. It fucking drives me up the wall, they all sound like bloody robots and I want to smash their stupid faces in. I always thought of it as an americanism, but it seems to be getting more common in the UK and I hate it, bloody stupid kim k wannabees.

[Processedpea]

It is the same as valley girl isn't it ?

[weareallfuckednow]

More like fuckin head fry

[Yabbers]

This American Life
Ira Glass? I had to stop listening to TAL because of his voice. He does something when pronouncing Ls which grates on my ears.

[Crinkle77]

I have never heard of this before today. Surely most people can't help the way they speak?

[TheFirstOHN]

OP: don't watch Dirty John (Netflix). The younger daughter (Terra) has the worst vocal fry I've ever heard, and her sister has the second worst. They must surely be damaging their voices in the long term.

[velourvoyageur]

It is total ear rape, is it not?

Whereas you're a delight, obvs.

[LuggsaysNotaWomen]

Surely most people can't help the way they speak?

Persistent vocal fry is an affectation albeit one that people may not be aware they are doing especially if they have unconsciously picked it up by listening to others who talk with vocal fry. It's not a very efficient way of speaking and can cause vocal damage in the long term because it is produced when the vocal cords are left slack and rub together which can cause nodules and the like. It's not the "natural" way to speak for most people (unless they have cord damage like the poster up thread).

[ginghamtablecloths]

It really grates and I hope that it is a fashion that will pass. Are they actually harming their vocal cords?

[TheFirstOHN]

To be fair, Julia Gardner doesn't speak like that all the time. She upped the vocal fry to sound like the woman she was portraying, who I've heard bring interviewed.

[BellMcEnd]

It is SO BLOODY ANNOYING. I work with a few people in their 20s who do it and I literally want to refer them to SALT (HCPs)

[mathanxiety]

I knew it looked weird, americandream, when my phone autocorrected to chords.

[bonzo77]

Omg. I haaate it. There’s a name for this shit? I always thought it sounds really lazy.

[AnnaNutherThing]

It's horrible because it's new(ish.)

I'll really never like it but no doubt any grandkids I have will have it, plus upward inflection, plus f for th. At that point I'll become reconciled no doubt!

[TheFirstOHN]

*Garner

[Proseccoagain]

OMG, I lived in Australia for a few years and it is just so easy to get into that question thing at the end of a sentence....?