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Was this movie influential, re "ValleySpeak"?

posted 9 years ago by Bilwick1
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I've noticed that in the decades since the movie was released, girls who grew up and went to school nowhere near the Valley--in fact in states not even near California--seem to speak in a way I associate (perhaps incorrectly) with Valley Girls. I particularly mean that idiotic uptalk--you know, where even declarative sentences sound like questions?

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[–] Mona_Liselotte 9 years ago

You got a point there.

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[–] debtfull 8 years ago

Teenagers have been saying like since the 50s, if not earlier.

Check out Dobe Gillis sometime, with Maynard G Krebs.

[–] Strannger (2007) 8 years ago

What about foresure?

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I know this is a super old post, but Shaggy from Scooby Doo did that "like" every other sentence, and that was back in the 1960s and 70s.

[–] Satan2016 8 years ago

The parody song Valley Girl by Moon Unit Zappa came out the year before.

[–] liscarkat (18489) 4 years ago

Upspeak and vocal fry, guaranteed to make any female sound dumb.

[–] Maya (116) 4 years ago

Men also have heavy vocal fry but we don't notice as much because their voices are so deep. That's not really a good way to gauge someone's intellect.

[–] Maya (116) 4 years ago

That's because American TV and cinema is filmed with a heavy LA influence. It then spread to the entire world as America is the movie industry standard.