a general culture question

[timepiececlock]

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.

Comments

[octopedingenue]

I quite like Valley Girl, even though its slang is nearly unintelligible to me, because it stars a VERY young Nicolas Cage as the character Randy. ("Randy Cage?! Why not just name me Horny Cage?! Or Desperate-For-A-Shag Cage?!")

As much as Cher in Clueless shrieked over even being ASSOCIATED with the Valley, I don't think of her as a Valley Girl. :D