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  2. Valley girl - Wikipedia

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    A valley girl is a socioeconomic, linguistic, and youth subcultural stereotype and stock character originating during the 1980s: any materialistic upper-middle-class young woman, associated with unique vocal and California dialect features, from the Los Angeles commuter communities of the San Fernando Valley. [1]

  3. California English - Wikipedia

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    California English (or Californian English) is the collection of English dialects native to California, largely classified under Western American English.Most Californians speak with a General American accent; alternatively viewed, possibly due to unconscious linguistic prestige, California accents may themselves be serving as a baseline to define the accents that are perceived as "General ...

  4. My Valley girl accent follows me wherever I go. Long live the ...

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    My true voice is a Valley girl voice, but I hide it because people respect me less when I use Valleyspeak. Why does the accent that brings me comfort have to be so stigmatized?

  5. Category:Valleyspeak - Wikipedia

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  6. What’s the viral ‘influencer accent’ and why is it so popular ...

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    Much of it comes from the ‘Valley Girl accent’ that people like Kim Kardashian use, and then impressionable young creators try to imitate that because they see it as a model of success,” he ...

  7. Agora Hills - Wikipedia

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    Doja Cat also adopts a Californian "valley girl" accent while rapping an entire verse of the song. [4] Doja Cat recorded "Agora Hills" during a ten day stint at Harbor Studios in Malibu, California. [5] [6] The song was produced by Earl on the Beat, Gent!, Jean Baptiste and Bangs, who all wrote the track alongside Doja Cat.

  8. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms - Wikipedia

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    Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...

  9. Gyaru - Wikipedia

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    There are various theories about the origin of the word Kogal, but the most popular theory is that the term was originally used as a slang term to distinguish high school girls who were not allowed to enter night clubs from adult women. There is also a theory that the word "Kogyaru'' was derived as an abbreviation of "High school girl" in Japanese.