But Laxmi’s and Corva’s voices are starting to sound more similar to me. So similar, in fact, that I’ve made a few unheard-of misidentifications in the past month.
MEchelle Norris (the cheerleader/homecoming queen/bitch who stole your boyfriend even though he wasn’t your boyfriend and never would be but you didn’t care because until SHE came along he was available, if only in your mind)
I used to think Lynne Rosetto Kasper’s voice was smarmy, until I was corrected. Her voice is sensual. (It is, kinda.)
Yeah, Corva and Laxmi sound alike to me too. Until this thread, I thought it was Corba and Lachsmee.
First to mention Diane Rehm! You can not have a reasonable discussion of ANY NPR show/talent without someone complaining about Diane Rehm. It is a law somewhere.
The chick that hyphenates her name drives me batty. No, I don’t remember either of them, no NYAH!
Lynne Rosetto Kasper’s voice produces a Pavlovian desire in me to eat. And to want to cook, which is not normal for me. I hear her voice and am hungry, immediately.
My current pet peeve is Ann Taylor. It sounds like she’s sneering through the whole update. “I’m Ann Taylor, [you asshole].” And then she always does this weird lilting intonation of “Dow Jones In-DUS-trial Average.” Every. Single. Time.
I like listening to NPR, but the honeyed voices of the female anchors becomes grating. And Daniel Schorr’s marble mouth, but due to his age I always assumed he had some health problems that made him sound like that. I don’t know if that’s actually true though.
Thanks for the link! Now I can toss in my own nomination for “annoying NPR voice” without fear of misspelling: Joanne Silberner! A kind of weird slurred and adenoidal delivery, usually on a topic that I’m interested in hearing about.
(Looking at the photo, I find it hard to imagine that voice coming out of that face.)
Would that be Carl Kasell? I get to be the first one to mention the sshhound of hisshh shlipping dentchuresshh, which is required almost as much as complaing about Dianne Rheam’s stroke-impacted speech impediment. I understand that she has a mortgage to pay, but after she had a stroke that damaged her ability to talk, she might have found a different career than talking on the radio? Am I the only one who thinks that NPR should have offered her a job on the other side of the microphone? I’m sure that her years of experience would be useful somewhere else.
I cringe whenever I hear the oncoming chalkboard-scratching of Ann Taylor.
But I have a soft spot in my heart for Diane Rheam, stroke and all. I actually like the fact that she measures out her questions and words carefully, due to the stroke. I feel like I’m getting more bang for the buck.
And she seems especially economical with her words as a result…not a whole lot of qualifiers, ‘you knows’, filler babble, or anything else. It takes a while to get through her questions but the quality seems reasonably high. Unlike the ‘Talk of the Nation’ hosts, who tend to babble on every now and then.
> . . . Dianne Rheam’s stroke-impacted speech impediment . . .I understand that
> she has a mortgage to pay, but after she had a stroke that damaged her ability
> to talk, she might have found a different career than talking on the radio?. . .
> NPR should have offered her a job on the other side of the microphone . . .
First, you’ve misspelled both of her names. Second, it has nothing to do with a stoke. It’s spasmatic dysphonia. Third, paying off her mortgage (or anything else related to desperately needing money) certainly had nothing to do with it. She was 62 in 1998 when her voice began to be affected. Her (and her husband’s) mortgage was probably paid off at that point and her husband was making enough on his own to pay it off in any case. It was entirely WAMU’s decision to keep her as the host of the show. (WAMU owns the show, not NPR.) I’m not sure I like their decision to keep her myself, but then I don’t get to decide anything in this world, so who cares? There’s no way, I suspect, that she would take any job that didn’t have her speaking on the radio:
I am irritated by the adenoidal voices of the guys who do Science Friday and This American Life. Someone on the 'Dope once pointed out that he does the show in the basement of his Mother’s house. She asks, “It’s time for dinner, Dear. Will your little radio friends be staying?”
