२२ मे, २०१३

"Phonetic description of annoying sounds teenagers make."



Text — in case you didn't memorize all that " Creaky-voiced long alveolar glide with mid front unrounded vowel and glottal stop" business — here. Via Metafilter.

ADDED: And if you enjoyed that guy — whose name is James Harbeck — here are all of this videos. I enjoyed "8 odd sounds from other languages that you could never make except you probably already have":



(Somehow, I found it irresistible to make all these sounds!)

२३ टिप्पण्या:

edutcher म्हणाले...

Uh oh, The Blonde makes those sounds all the time.

Bob_R म्हणाले...

Harbeck is quite good. I admire him. I've been working on both singing and speaking recently. It's basically just another fine motor skill, but it's far from easy.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

I didn't hear him queef.

Methadras म्हणाले...

Allah Ackbar wasn't in there either. That sound always creates universal cringing.

tim maguire म्हणाले...

I like the names best. What could be funner to say than alveolar implosive glottal stop?

ricpic म्हणाले...

Congress should give Lerner immunity if she testifies.

An end run around ERICK-K-K-K!!!

Testify, beeyatch, testify!

ricpic म्हणाले...

Curses. Wrong thread.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

Duh!

I still do that one.

poppa india म्हणाले...

That first vid made me lol, also miss my son-he's 20 now, but the next time he's home I'll ask him to do a "talk like a teen day".

poppa india म्हणाले...

That first vid made me lol, also miss my son-he's 20 now, but the next time he's home I'll ask him to do a "talk like a teen day".

Tari म्हणाले...

The 13 year old watched avidly, then starting mimicking. I took the laptop away. Is there any end to their annoying ways? Or is that called "30"?

chickelit म्हणाले...

Chirbit: That link was cool, Althouse

Unknown म्हणाले...

No, sadly Tari, it doesn't end at 30. It's pretty much forever with some people.

I could make 8 of the sounds. Number 9 is beyond my abilities.

poppa india म्हणाले...

Sorry for the double-tap. That always happens on my first post!

ErnieG म्हणाले...

He left out the vocal fry. That's the squeaky voice effect as in, "S. C. Johnson, a family company."

Astro म्हणाले...

First video - 'Napoleon Dynamite', the abbreviated version.

Paddy O म्हणाले...

So, my baby girl is a very active preacher, hand gestures, the whole works. What's fun is that it's not in English so there's all sorts of sounds that she makes that I wish were in English, some repeatedly. They're going to get lost, abandoned on the shoals of English communication, but I wish I could capture them and make words, new words, better words.

Tari म्हणाले...

wyo sis, he's really not as annoying as all that - I felt bad for even saying so. :)

I can make most of the sounds myself, as well. Lots of practice when I was younger, I guess.

AlanKH म्हणाले...

Teens put the "dip" in "dipthong."

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Huh? Why all this vulgarity saying "frickative" over and over and talking about uvulars.

अनामित म्हणाले...

Re: first vid. It's not just teenagers. The sound he makes at the 35-second mark has long been a favorite of my mother, who is now 94.

Charlotte C म्हणाले...

Good examples of alveolar and lateral clicks can be found in the "click song"or Qongqothwane made famous by Miriam Makeba. Most local children here, irrespective of language group, learn the song in kindergarten. Qongqothwane is the Xhosa name for a bug.

Bayoneteer म्हणाले...

Bottom line: There's nothing so trivial that someone, somewhere, won't study it. Enjoy the decline.