a general culture question

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Americans who don't live in the SF Bay Area:

Do you know what a "valley girl" is? Or, do you know what "valley girl talk" sounds like?


I'm curious, because I was chatting with my mom, and she thinks valley girl is a slang term that's fairly specific to the Santa Clara Valley and the South Bay. I was surprised... I hadn't thought that it might just be a local phrase, and not a more spread out one, because I'd heard it a lot growing up. I could certainly identify a valley girl stereotype in a movie or on tv. Which of course makes me California-centric, I admit, but hey I do live here.

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I grew up in New Jersey and I live in New York and I certainly knew the term Valley Girl and at least the broadly exaggerated stereotype of how they talk. Though I tend not to use it, because I don't know that I could pinpoint with precision precisely where either the physical boundary of the Valley or the accent ends, and I don't want to be one of those people who uses Cockney to mean "any working class accent from the British isles."

Mer