Out of all the readings we have done so far this one was by far the easiest to read and related to me quite a bit. I have a lot of Californian friends who migrated to Utah. So it was easy for me to see that California could have there own dialect. Through hanging out with my friends I tend to pick up on there slang and start using words like "dawg" and "tight" that have tended to reside in California throughout the hip hop industry.
I believe we tend to speak this way because of Hollywood and the Hip Hop Industry that was either originated in New York or California and there was a distinct line between the two. Also Hollywood is all over the TV and in movies and that is all we here about is what star is doing what or what movies are coming out. So in turn we tend to speak like the stars because we see that they are successful and we want to mimic them so in turn we could live the glamorous lifestyle just like stars.
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I agree with you that people like to talk like the movie stars. Maybe people think they will as popular as movie stars if they talk like them. It's amazing how fake things (movies) can start to show up in real life.
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