Just thought I'd flip on conference to see what kind of garbage they were feeding the people, and I remembered the worst part of watching conference! the tone of voice! are they coached to use that special brainwashing tone when speaking? I can't freaking stand it! They all have the same Mormon vocab and painfully irritating tone in their voice, what is up with that! I had to turn it off. Puke.

Do you think the acoustics of the conference center add to the voices all sounding like that, or is it just something learned by them all?

I don't think it's "learned". But I've noticed even mormon men in my ward speak like than when giving talks.

My theory is that they admire GAs, so end up inheriting their mannerisms. And GAs themselves did the same with the GAs of their time, which is why they all end up the same. I wouldn't be surprised if the GAs of 100 years spoke in a similar way when giving talks, and people have just been copying it ever since.

I find that sometimes I subconsciously copy mannerisms of people I admire, and I see other people outside the church doing it too. I think a lot of TBMs end up becoming GA clones for that reason. I don't think they necessarily have lessons as GAs to teach them to speak like that, they already do so before they're called.

Yes, it's not that those chosen as GAs speak like that, it's that those who speak like that are chosen as GAs.

Hands down the worst I remember was MG Romney. Holy smoke, he could knock me out into a coma in 20 seconds!

It's something almost trans-like.

Oh, and I'd like to end my post by saying that I know this thread is true and that it was revealed through patterns in the originator's clam chowder. And I know that clam chowder is the only decent bowl of soup on the earth today. I'd like to tell my wife publicly (insert tears here) that I love her (even though I beat her her to a pulp when the moon is full and surf animal porn in secret).

CANT STOP LAUGHING!!!! And yes I think its monotonus toooo...zzzzzz

What's-his-name is up right now and as he held up a book he said "...this little brown book, which I hold in my hand..."

Well, dammit, I can see the frikkin' book, you're holding it in your hand!

That must be a defineable sales trick, to restate the obvious. A snake oil sales trick?

Then he went '1984' and declared that "Following the law is liberty".

At least he's not too sing-songy--he's more like the old codger that's bloviating to a bunch of disinterested high-schoolers.

For me the most boring tone is Richard G. Scott, his voice is a cure for insomnia.

Uchtdorf I could listen to all day, make that man prophet and make church policy follow his latest talks, and I'd look at going NoM instead of leaving someday.

I was cynical about how nobody ever says to feed the hungry and whatnot and in Priesthood he made a nice reference about how the priesthood needs a vial of oil in one hand to heal the sick (which they can't really do), and a loaf of bread in the other to feed the hungry (which they really can).

I always HATED the "General Conference voice" - absolutely awful! The most condescending tone imaginable.

I call it the "Tribal Drone"! It's their heritage, generational, it's how most LDS speak from the general area in Idaho and Utah predominately.

It's the preachers voice also. It's common in most religions. A slight different tone used to promote the beliefs and stir the "spirit."! Some religions get out of that soft, reverent tone respecting Jesus Christ, and Heavenly Father and get right into yelling and shouting their exuberance for their beliefs.
That's at least, more fun to watch! :-)

If you flipped through the radio dial, you'd recognize instantly that you had hit a GC broadcast, which is the entire point.

It's all about branding, and associating the drone with "feeling the Spirit". Uchtdorf can't do it very well, because he didn't grow up listening to it. He talks like a normal human.

Let's not forget the tone of the female speakers. I've heard toddlers at daycare speak in a more adult tone of voice when they ask to go peepee...

I alwaus wanted to strangle those women when they talked like that! Maybe it would change their voice a bit. Shut the f@ck up!

If anything they're worse than the "men"!

Has anyone else noticed the Mormon lip smack? Or is it just me imagining something?

Mostly prevalent in the women speakers. It's where they make a particularly holy statement and then punctuate it with a little smack of the lips.

If you've never noticed it before you'll probably shake your head and say 'oh my God' next time you see it. Maybe I'm evil but I just feel like bitch slapping them when I see it.

It's the "churchy" voice.

I once was flipping channels in Utah and ran across a video of a
seed growing under the ground. The narration was a scientific
description of the process. However the tone of voice was that
Mormony, churchy, Conferency tone. I knew this was some kind of
"churchy" thing. Sure enough it cut away from the seed sprouting
to show the guy giving a talk and making his "gospel point"
about the seed.

I think the "convocation of sedated morticians" voice is there
to make it seem profound. If they spoke with a more "matter of
fact" delivery it might invite thoughtful criticism rather than
awed belief.

A guy I work with was made a seventy a couple years back. (Kent Richards) They had him speak in general conference right afterwards.

I found it hysterically funny to hear him speaking in that sing song, high pitched, wistful, carried away by the spirit voice that they all try to use. He did it almost as well as Richard G. Scott. It was hilarious to hear someone that I knew fairly well on a personal level speak like that.

It still makes me chuckle when I think about it.

I listened to Thomas S. manotonous ...

Anyone else notice when he tells his stories he starts out hign and then rammbles off and his voice is like falling down some stairs until he reached the bottom pivotal point. All the while his voice is not keeping up with his gestures and body language.

His voice aside the content is what puts me in to a slumber.

http://youtu.be/0taZlm9IUsA



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