Of all the readings we have done, I related the most to this one. The people in it sounded just like me and my friends in the way that they talked. I use the word "like" all the time, more than I would like, and I also use many of the slang terms the teenage girls described in the first part of the reading.
I think that one of the biggest reasons that the californian dialect is prevalent all over the US is because of the media. Most tv and movie writers live in California, and they write what they know and what they hear in their daily lives. In our culture today, emmulating what we see famous people doing has become very popular, and this trend includes adopting new words and ways of speaking that we hear in the media, like the example given of the effects of the movie "Clueless."
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I too relate to the california dialect. I have quite a bit of friends who have moved from california to utah so that is where I think I got the dialect from.
I agree that media has a big part. california is a hot spot and is in the news and movies etc way more then Utah.
I also agree with you that California with Hollywood there gets a ton of media attention, and that must play a big factor the the slang.
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