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I'm not a verified anything here, but I worked as an RN in an ENT clinic with a MD who specialized in voice for several years. The speech therapist that I worked with and I had many conversations about vocal fry LONG before it became popular to point it out in pop culture. It can be very annoying. I agree that we don't need to police people's voices, but when it is something that is affected, rather than caused by a condition of the vocal cords people notice it (eta: professionally - I'm not talking about pop culture here).
I suggest reading this article written by a speech pathology professional organization which writes about the condition/affected speech with a less biased viewpoint.
Totally Fried
Being a foreigner, I simply thought she had an unpleasant tone of voice, but also that maybe it was a part of a local dialect? Both she and the detective show some nazalization of the sounds.
Interestingly, the person who I definitely remember having something similar to vocal fry was from another country. Catherine Millet, the Frenchwoman, author of a very provoking book. (You can Google her, she is in Wikipedia). What is interesting is that a) it is another language, and Ms. Millet, a 70-year old editor of Art-Press, is not a Kardashian fan. B) I looked at several of her interviews to understand what it takes to produce such a bold book and I noticed she has very poor eye contact, but speaks very well, except for this tone, the vocal fry, and C) it is a totally different language so the vocal fry is not solely about culture, or language per se.
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