I'm sorry if you feel I spoke too stongly, but if so it is because I feel strongly that your attempt to impute moral value to a vocal feature you know little about is unfounded and frankly oppressive.
If you'd like to have a conversation about that, you can start by defining your terms: Who or what "warrants" an arbitrary feature of your speech in whatever way you feel the fry is "unwarranted"?
I'm not sure how you're bringing morality into this. I'm simply viewing speech as communication and nothing more. Vocal fry increases noise in the signal to noise ratio, and I don't see how that could be useful.
Slouching = laziness = a moral value, dude. The point is it's not a choice, and even if it were if efficiency were a primary driver of language then we wud all b ritin lk dis n im gesin u dont car 4 dat ether.
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Thank you. Some people just seek out arguments instead of conversations.
I'm sorry if you feel I spoke too stongly, but if so it is because I feel strongly that your attempt to impute moral value to a vocal feature you know little about is unfounded and frankly oppressive.
If you'd like to have a conversation about that, you can start by defining your terms: Who or what "warrants" an arbitrary feature of your speech in whatever way you feel the fry is "unwarranted"?
I'm not sure how you're bringing morality into this. I'm simply viewing speech as communication and nothing more. Vocal fry increases noise in the signal to noise ratio, and I don't see how that could be useful.
Slouching = laziness = a moral value, dude. The point is it's not a choice, and even if it were if efficiency were a primary driver of language then we wud all b ritin lk dis n im gesin u dont car 4 dat ether.