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As an English teacher in Peru, I can totally relate to this. Some of my students copy that annoying voice and intonation. It IS annoying.

Really annoying.

It's not only the vocal fry, but uptalk seems to become more and more common, spreading to the UK too. It is sad.

brilliant! 😂 And so true. Not only US-phenonemon, though.

Only few things in this world irritate me off as much as this voice...

Vocal Fry makes me instantaneously hate someone

My boss talks like this. I always ask her if she needs a lozenge. She doesn’t get it.

I can imagine Hugh Laurie as Dr. House saying the same thing.

Anyone noticed how this "tone" was made popular through TV shows, loved by TEENAGERS, like Miley Cyrus' Hannah Montana? This, in communication, is one argument for the Cultivation Theory. Long-term effects of exposure to specific media contents.