Why do so many young (and sometimes older) women talk like Valley Girls? (talks, person)
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About 30 years ago. Things change. Those people would be in their 50s now.
They had to be teens and that's about the time the Valley Girls movie came out. I live in NJ and do not hear adult women talking like this.
Accents on Real Housewives and Jersey Shore are so exaggerated, real people don't speak like that here.
They had to be teens and that's about the time the Valley Girls movie came out. I live in NJ and do not hear adult women talking like this.
Accents on Real Housewives and Jersey Shore are so exaggerated, real people don't speak like that here.
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Originally Posted by njkate
They had to be teens and that's about the time the Valley Girls movie came out. I live in NJ and do not hear adult women talking like this.
Accents on Real Housewives and Jersey Shore are so exaggerated, real people don't speak like that here.
Gee, really? Exaggerated? I'm shocked.
You wouldn't here adult women talk like that anywhere, really.
Yeah, UGH! I live near a college area and I often hear older women talking in variations like this also.
I guess the difference came when I travelled abroad for business recently and witnessed people actually expressing themselves well and these were not even native English speakers.
It really shouldn't be surprising if you live in a college area where it's probably more common amongst younger women. It's not that they, or the older women are lacking in intellect or the ability to eloquently express themselves.
If you took those same women and immersed them in the abroad cultures, they would begin to affect the same voice and speech mannerisms.
It's what our brains subconsciously do around strangers and in cultural groups we find ourselves spending time in. Adapting speech styles is a way to 'fit in' and be accepted by the 'pack,' so if you have a group of popular valley speaking girls, their speech style spreads to other young women around them, who go out into wider social circles where older women are exposed to it and begin to adapt and pick up traces of the same style.
My biggest pet peeve is the word is "Like" being in every sentence!
My step daughter is constantly saying, "Like" and it gets so bad that we can't even follow her conversation because all we hear is Like, Like, Like!!!!
She's breaking the habit but it's been a slow process...probably because all her friends say it too!
There's a woman I only know through talking to her on the phone? It's a business thing? And she ends every sentence? Sometimes every clause? Or phrase? As if she's asking a question? DRIVES ME NUTS. PERIOD. FULL STOP.
Vocal fry is more like when someone is talking and they finish a sentence with a lower tone of voice and fade out at the last word. That is REALLY annoying. Stoner talk.
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