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[Race to be King]

I mean, it's OK for a guy to wear a purse in their eyes.

Some of us are secure in our masculinity.

 

[Violet_0]

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[crooked spin]

Uh, who cares?

Funny that GAF generally seems very liberal and progressive then something like this pops up and the first reaction is "oh no plz protect the precious gender binary!"

 

[Avixph]

Everyone here should post a recording of their voice for we can know how how speak.

 

[entremet]

Filler words are more annoying than anything. Nothing gender specific about them.

 

[Kitschkraft]

So all of Australia talks in a girl dialect? Everyone here does that rising tone at the end of sentences.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal is what they are talking about.

Video for reference : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPIeOezvLgo

I've been told that I do this sometimes and I've caught myself doing it. Usually when I half to speak to a group.

 

[Quackula]

This thread makes me want to go out of my way to use as many filler words as possible.

 

[marrec]

Everyone here should post a recording of their voice for we can know how how speak.

Fuck, I tried but after I finished recording my manly fucking voice the entire computer grew facial hair all over it and then went outside to wrestle a bear.

Maybe I'll try again tomorrow.

 

[cyclonekruse]

Uh, who cares?

Funny that GAF generally seems very liberal and progressive then something like this pops up and the first reaction is "oh no plz protect the precious gender binary!"

My guess is that most GAFfers don't like uptalk in males or females. And they're just bemoaning the fact that it might be spreading beyond its established base in the Valley.

Everyone here should post a recording of their voice for we can know how how speak.

We should find a paragraph that showcases a good variety of sounds. And words that showcase the differences between accents. Marry, merry, and Mary come to mind. Beg and bag. Water. Etc.

 

[Avixph]

Fuck, I tried but after I finished recording my manly fucking voice the entire computer grew facial hair all over it and then went outside to wrestle a bear.

Maybe I'll try again tomorrow.

Don't Put Off Until Tomorrow What You Can Do Today.

 

[Nyanko]

I'm okay with this. Personally, I'd rather judge people by what they say rather than how they say it.

 

[Deleted member 231381]

Uh, who cares?

Funny that GAF generally seems very liberal and progressive then something like this pops up and the first reaction is "oh no plz protect the precious gender binary!"

This has nothing to do with the gender binary. Until this article, I didn't actually associate this with men or women, given that some from both genders do it. It has everything to do with it being an extremely irritating method of communication.

 

[injurai]

Just last year I saw a report talking about more girls are speaking like guys and falling back into their lower register (vocal fry.)

 

[entremet]

This has nothing to do with the gender binary. Until this article, I didn't actually associate this with men or women, given that some from both genders do it. It has everything to do with it being an extremely irritating method of communication.

Yep.

 

[User 100115]

I grew up in New Mexico, so using like as a filler is hard wired into my brain. People describe the New Mexican accent as Spanish/Texan with hints of valley girl and Navajo. I've been able to mostly drop the valley girl, but it still comes out if I am nervous, talking a lot, or talking with someone from New Mexico :/

Also, don't know if it's just a New Mexico thing, but using 'all' as 'very' as well. "She's all pissed." Ect

 

[Vermillion]

Intriguing. A more effeminate manner of speech is certainly one of my modes... Usually meant to heckle my friends. But I'm not entirely sure that I speak like that.

 

[Rentahamster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OluCvL0lRnI

Stephen Fry had a segment on this too.

 

[Avixph]

We should find a paragraph that showcases a good variety of sounds. And words that showcase the differences between accents. Marry, merry, and Mary come to mind. Beg and bag. Water. Etc.

Yes definitely.

 

[Dead Man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OluCvL0lRnI

Stephen Fry had a segment on this too.

Funny to hear a man afflicted with rhotacism (the host, not Fry) talk about how other people talk funny.

 

[cyclonekruse]

Yes definitely.

I looked into it a bit. According to Wikipedia, this is a pangram that uses all the phones of English.

"The beige hue on the waters of the loch impressed all, including the French queen, before she heard that symphony again, just as young Arthur wanted."

And I came up with the following:

"Mary heard the merry tune, too. It made her muse that she might someday marry her mate even though her father did not care a lot for the man. In a vague way, the song gave her a thought to buy a bag of eggs for her cat. Its leg had been bitten by a dog with a brown coat that had gotten loose from his home on a boat. Mary took off her dirty boots and caught a good nap on the cot. What a day!"

I think that covers a lot of ground. Mary/merry/marry are in there. Cot and caught. Vague, bag, eggs, and leg. Boots and boat. Tune and too. I think plenty of r's that could be rhotic or not. By and buy. A possibility for hw to come out in the last sentence. Words like "father," "cat," and "dog" which sound different depending on reagion.

Hopefully I didn't miss anything too major.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Maybe these men just need more friends

faking orgasms imo

 

[BPoole]

I've noticed this as well. Men are becoming increasing more feminine these days

 

[Nyanko]

Some of us are secure in our masculinity.

Off-topic, but this bag is absolutely adorable.

 

[freenudemacusers]

While troubling, as long as we all still pee standing up I think men are safe.


For now.

 

[Dusk Soldier]

When I started hearing the word 'like' as a sentence bridge begin to get abused by both men and older women instead of being relegated to "valley girl" parodies, I knew this was inevitable.

I honestly can't take anyone seriously of either gender when they suffer from verbal diarrhea and use 'like' at least once out of every 8-10 words they utter.

I had a french teacher, who would go crazy everytime someone would say "comme ca." Actually to be honest I don't remember the exact expression, but it was his personal mission to remove it from our vocabulary.

 

[Avixph]

I looked into it a bit. According to Wikipedia, this is a pangram that uses all the phones of English.

"The beige hue on the waters of the loch impressed all, including the French queen, before she heard that symphony again, just as young Arthur wanted."

And I came up with the following:

"Mary heard the merry tune, too. It made her muse that she might someday marry her mate even though her father did not care a lot for the man. In a vague way, the song gave her a thought to buy a bag of eggs for her cat. Its leg had been bitten by a dog with a brown coat that had gotten loose from his home on a boat. Mary took off her dirty boots and caught a good nap on the cot. What a day!"

I think that covers a lot of ground. Mary/merry/marry are in there. Cot and caught. Vague, bag, eggs, and leg. Boots and boat. Tune and too. I think plenty of r's that could be rhotic or not. By and buy. A possibility for hw to come out in the last sentence. Words like "father," "cat," and "dog" which sound different depending on reagion.

Hopefully I didn't miss anything too major.

Thanks I'll post a recording later on today. But in the meantime everyone else should post their recordings.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

This is because humans change their gender when faced with regional extinction due to an overwhelming imbalance of males or females of breeding age. It's just that the excessive number of guns and giant trucks in the US has actually tricked the male population into thinking that they need to switch to female. Soon, unless the machismo is reigned in, the gonads of many hot-blooded American males will retract into their abdomens leading to the end of civilisation as we know it.

 

[Meier]

I thought this would be referencing guys using totes amazeballs and the like.

 

[pants]

Off-topic, but this bag is absolutely adorable.

I have a Nyanko sensei wallet, no fucks were given.

 

[dream]

I was expecting this to be about male POP-GAFfers calling each other "sis."

 

[freenudemacusers]

This is because humans change their gender when faced with regional extinction due to an overwhelming imbalance of males or females of breeding age. It's just that the excessive number of guns and giant trucks in the US has actually tricked the male population into thinking that they need to switch to female. Soon, unless the machismo is reigned in, the gonads of many hot-blooded American males will retract into their abdomens leading to the end of civilisation as we know it.

I thought truck nuts were supposed to fix this.

 

[Dead Man]

This is because humans change their gender when faced with regional extinction due to an overwhelming imbalance of males or females of breeding age. It's just that the excessive number of guns and giant trucks in the US has actually tricked the male population into thinking that they need to switch to female. Soon, unless the machismo is reigned in, the gonads of many hot-blooded American males will retract into their abdomens leading to the end of civilisation as we know it.

It's all been worth it just for this post.

 

[Arozay]

Like, gag me with a spoon.

 

[Tesseract]

this is so bad my weenie is shaking its head.

 

[Lucario]

Insecure-GAF is hilarious.

 

[freenudemacusers]

this is so bad my weenie is shaking its head.

that's arousal bro

 

[pizza dog]

Don't talk like this, boy or girl. Make statements, don't ask questions.

 

[DanteFox]

I'm part of the resistance here in California. It's tough though because it's so prevalent. I'll catch myself using "like" sometimes unnecessarily. Stay strong brothers.

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

A generation of Andre's everytwhere...

 

[Dynamite Ringo Matsuri]

Like Oh em gee, you're just hella tooooootssssss jealousssss!

Christ... I've actually heard full grown, middle aged women use "totes", "OH EM GEE", and "amazeballs" in a conversation before. Louis CK needs to update his "how we talk" bit

 

[trixx]

In Canada too.

Seems it's just the kind of speech pattern that evolves when the speaker is outwardly interested in the listeners' view on what is being said.

Makes perfect sense in light of an increasingly less top-down, more democratic society.

I thought I was the only person in Canada that noticed this lol. Guess not

 

[Coconut]

As a person from California this is just, like, how people talk and junk.

 

[dave is ok]

omg this article is sooo random, it's ridic

 

[Race to be King]

Off-topic, but this bag is absolutely adorable.

Totes adorbs.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

The inability to refrain from superfluous usage of like, uh, and um in general conversation is a blight on society. We should be able to communicate directly without struggling to convey our point or stumble through the thought process.

And saying "hella" is an embarrassment if you graduated High School later than 2002.

 

[twobear]

wow so the hardwiring of men's brains is changing over time. hmm very interesting.

 

[Quackula]

The inability to refrain from superfluous usage of like, uh, and um in general conversation is a blight on society. We should be able to communicate directly without struggling to convey our point or stumble through the thought process.

And saying "hella" is an embarrassment is you graduated High School later than 2002.

is you?

 

[teruterubozu]

is you?

Total embarrassment and a blight on society.

 

[kick51]

A lot of times it just sounds almost like they're making fun of women by speaking in a stereotypical way. I've never really gotten over that thought with particularly flamboyant guys...I just don't understand how that happens, seems like major overcompensation.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

is you?

I never said I was perfect.