dude... that was knarly

I lived in California for a while and it was hilarious to here some of the words people would use. One of my friends said 'dude' a minimum of 15 times a sentence. It was almost hard to understand what he was saying because all the 'dudage' threw off the meaning. I definitely see the California dialect in my speech. I use the word 'like' in my speech, not a lot, but some. I also use all the others like sick, dude, rad...ect. I haven't noticed it in myself, but my friends are avid supporters of the uptalk. It kind of sounds ridiculous when you take time to notice it. I would agree that trends tend to start in California and move eastward. It makes sense because pop-culture thrives in California. Hollywood is the mecca of trends and if something starts there and ends up on TV or a movie it's going to catch on other places and start spreading. Trends might even start elsewhere but it seems that it's the MTV pop culture that picks up on them and makes them nationally known. The historic movement of dialect has been westward but that's because we started out in the east and slowly moved our way out west. It's only recently that we've had such a huge population on the west coast and even more recent since we've been able to communicate dialects and trends so easily across the country. Television and the internet have a huge part to play in the spreading of dialects from California eastward.