I'm glad there's a name. I always wondered what to call it since it's clearly one of those things we're going to hate ourselves for in 10 years.

Humans are dumb creatures.

This is one of those rare instances where I'm actually thrilled to be 30.

Animal noises.

Stop Glottalization!

This is really interesting. Also, wtf w/ the claim there is no equivalent phenomenon in men. I'm sure there are plenty of ridiculous male vocal affectations out there.

No we don't need to spend money to research this more. Is there not enough to be researching already?

I always thought people who did that were smokers, and thus had fucked up vocal cords.

It's creaky voice.

Like 98% of the world's languages use some form of it.

I think it's used phonemically in every Native American language along the Pacific coast, and has been noticed for decades already being used prosodically in a shit ton of English dialects.

Bill Clinton uses it.

"Animal noises"

prime example: ashleigh ball

Science has now discovered, after poring over a veritable Andes of research data, that there is a single, sub-atomic cultural artifact that young women do not yet hate themselves for!

Something must be done about this terrible omission in the self-castigation systems installed in our girly youth.

Studies must be done to determine the LONG TERM EFFECTS of this devastating flaw.

It's probably cancer.

And manlessness.

They did this study in Long Island, so the current problem might be a bit overstated.

Thurrhhis wholeurrhh stuurrhhdy irrurrhhitates meurrhh.

There is probably a direct comparison to be made here with the Spanish lisp, but I can't be bothered to do the research. Somebody fill us all in.