Why does EVERYONE talk like a valley girl?!?!?!?

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  On 9/14/2014 at 9:36 AM, Npoess said:

Where I'm from most females talks like they are participants in a reality show. That means talking about yourself as much as possible, and not really caring about anything but trivial everyday bullshit and product consumption.

 

Most males tries to use as many swear words as possible to draw attention to their "maleness". The ironic thing is that it makes them look like insecure little boys. Topics of conversation: alcohol and lifting.

 

If you use a word longer than 7 letters = nerd/weirdo

Shit, that sounds like many places today. Troubling.

The ironic part about nerd-shaming though is that the "cool kids" have nerds to thank for the invention of their smartphones. Also the first two you mentioned are little different from wild animals competing for mates, intelligence-wise.

  On 9/14/2014 at 9:25 PM, Danny O Flannagin said:

I live in northern california and basically everyone says "hella"

 

Are we the only ones?

Think I've heard that in eastern Washington state. Not sure if it's still a thing tho.

  On 9/14/2014 at 8:53 AM, bitroast said:

it's happening !!!

 

 

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was thinking more along the lines of

  On 9/13/2014 at 2:23 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Can you record yourself talking like this and post it. Having a hard time imagining what this sounds like

k ive made the sound recording on my phone to upload on here, but its too large to send as one file and i dont have an editor on my work computer, so im gonna try to upload it tonight and post it... maybe an EKTer can sample it and we can make the next windowlicker.

Born-raised in L.A. So I leave for like 20 years... (but as can be read from my posts, I do still use "like" a lot, because I think it serves an intended purpose of uh... sumsing). Yah but the point of my post is...-- so a few years ago I visit my relatives after not having seen them for ~20 years- all the kids are adults, all the old school adults are older. But since it's Cali, fucking every dude relative sounds surfer; every dudette relative valley-ish. Even the ones who are over 50. But the weird thing is that vibe wise- with the lifestyle that comes from such speech- everyone old feels really young. It's as if in the past 20 years, a wave of hipness hit everyone. The conservative ones got all chill and smart. Wearing 5kg thick plastic glasses, etc.

After going intaanashyonaru, my spoken voice has luckily changed from pure Cali style. I used to hear recordings of myself ~15~20 years ago and I fucking sounded like Keanu Reeves. Now is more like Morgan Freeman; less like Ted "Theodore" Logan.

Actually, but I guess Morgan Freeman can't wail on a guitar to save the universe, so I guess it's all good.

  On 9/16/2014 at 1:53 AM, peace 7 said:

 

Actually, but I guess Morgan Freeman can't wail on a guitar to save the universe, so I guess it's all good.

I just recorded my voice now to proudly present my standardized, non-Cali English speaking voice:

[sc5]167912455[/sc5]

Yo pass the spliff, that was bodacious

  On 9/16/2014 at 2:22 AM, peace 7 said:

I just recorded my voice now to proudly present my standardized, non-Cali English speaking voice:

 

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lol

hahaha

I've been guilty of the "I know, right?" from time to time, but I don't have the inflection when I say it. Hell, with my midwestern accent it sounds forced when people do put that inflection into their speaking (or they just sound stoned, in which case they usually are around here) I used to be guilty of the "like"thing when I was a pre-teen but don't really do that anymore unless I'm actually making a simile.

Also the use of "hella" just sounds dumb, no matter how you say it.

  On 9/16/2014 at 2:22 AM, peace 7 said:

I just recorded my voice now to proudly present my standardized, non-Cali English speaking voice:

 

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lolol peace. rock on! lost my shit at 1:17 hahaha

but yeah like whatever dudes

Ok finally got my impersonation recorded (:

here it is

P.S. 0:00 - 0:38 - Valley Girl... 0:38 - end - Valley Guy

I had a friend who spoke like this and I was really confused because the tone goes up at the end of every sentence so I'd be like "did she just ask me a question?" every time she spoke.

I knew someone in college that sounded sarcastic no matter what he said. It dramatically increases the urge to strangle.

  On 9/16/2014 at 8:15 PM, Lane Visitor said:

Ok finally got my impersonation recorded (:

 

here it is

 

P.S. 0:00 - 0:38 - Valley Girl... 0:38 - end - Valley Guy

 

You have been valley experienced. Feels good, man.

  On 9/16/2014 at 8:15 PM, Lane Visitor said:

Ok finally got my impersonation recorded (:

 

here it is

 

P.S. 0:00 - 0:38 - Valley Girl... 0:38 - end - Valley Guy

 

I like how your on the freeway here, gives an even more genuine approach to the imitation

  On 9/16/2014 at 8:15 PM, Lane Visitor said:

Ok finally got my impersonation recorded (:

 

here it is

 

P.S. 0:00 - 0:38 - Valley Girl... 0:38 - end - Valley Guy

 

*puts gun to head*

  On 9/16/2014 at 8:15 PM, Lane Visitor said:

Ok finally got my impersonation recorded (:

 

here it is

 

P.S. 0:00 - 0:38 - Valley Girl... 0:38 - end - Valley Guy

 

there's probably an 85% chance that your impersonation is identical to the conversation taking place in the white Infiniti in front of you

hahaha!

I'm guilty of "hella" (from Seattle), but I see it as more of a generational thing. I don't use it often anymore, but it does still slip.
(90s were my teen / early 20s years)

I've noticed watching people who work for companies like IGN, or Viceland that valley speak seems to have become an integral part of SoCal linguistics, they don't even realize they're doing it, but it can be really annoying after listening to someone for a while who overuses Like to an extreme point.

  On 9/13/2014 at 1:49 AM, GRVGLTCHR said:

hearing the word "like" dropped casually into sentences brings out suppressed pangs of ultraviolence

it almost creates a sense of detachment, where the emphasis switches from "something is this" to "something is like this", but then the guilty party never elaborates as to what that comparison actually might be

its a word virus, like herpes, but masks a deeper identity abstraction & as Coil succinctly broadcast "reject the things you find everywhere"

Valley girls of the local variety will fuck you ragged n then some just for picking up their gravy n chips tab

I totally (see?) talk like this and you're all a bunch of judgy assholes.