I notice a little bit of the California dialect in my speech, but mostly in relaxed social settings. Most of the time I am in structured or professional settings, but I do use words like, ‘like,’ ‘dawg,’ ‘bites,’ ‘tight,’ ‘sick,’ and maybe some others, but I’m not quite ‘up’ with the dialect yet so most of these I use very seldom.
As far as California being ahead in linguistic matters, I think it is accurate in the sense that the evolution of their English is further along, since this dialect is used more often there than most other places. California is one of the biggest surfing locations in the United States and a lot of this vocabulary seems to come from surfers. This could possibly be a reason why this dialect emerged quicker in California. This dialect would spread eastward rather than westward because of all the different nationalities in California who might make up their own interpretations of the English language.
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You make a good point about the surfer population being huge in California and how that has a big impact on things.
I also think a big reason California language is "ahead" is because of the large cultural diversity. This creates a blend of the languages.
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