Young Women Using Vocal Fry When They Speak.

[dave50]

Anyone heard of this? I know what it means now after googling it and it's something I've been curious about for a while when listening to some young women speaking, usually on tv or social media, thinking, why do they speak like that? I've always found it rather irritating. 

[jourdain2]

Me too, Tilly.  'Vocal Fry' is a new expression to me, but I suppose that it is what applies when I have to sing a male bass part and get down to bottom C ,or the 2 notes I can reach below. To explain, I am a lowish alto and have 3 octaves, so I quite often have had to help out a bass line.

Yes, it is irritating in speech, no need for it.

[237SJ]

I can't stand the upspeak.  And the Jamaican patois "laak" even though none of the black, white, Asian kids have never been anywhere Jamaica laak.

[Atheist]

Yeah, but I bet most of us had a different accent from our elders.

[Atheist]

...Innit!

[Canary42]

Ludocruz's link is hilarious, especially the twist at the end (pity about the foul language tho').

[Cloverjo]

Yes, I did like Ludocruz's link. 😁 I've never heard much 'vocal fry' in real life, but I live in the backwater of beyond  .

Regarding London accents today and the Jamaican edge to the vowels, the 'yoof' now sound nothing like my Cockney husband.
Things change. 

[dave50]

Yes ludo, rising inflection at the end of every sentence is another annoying trait.