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Why did the valley girl accent become dominant in English?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 83737306:MV81MTY3MzgwXzk0OTM0ODgyXzFEMUY3REQy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 83728273:MV81MTY3MzgwXzk0OTM0NDI0Xzc4OUM5MDk=] [quote:TheRealRebel:MV81MTY3MzgwXzk0OTM0MzM4XzEyNkJBMkU2] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM[/youtube] [/quote] OH I get it, you are talking about ways of expression, not an accent. [/quote] The valley girl style of speaking is referred to as an accent such as what the woman in the following video says when she tries to do it. She calls it an accent. Other people call it a dialect: [b]Valspeak or Valley Speak is a social class dialect (or sociolect) said to have originated among materialistic young upper-class white women in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley during the 1970s. It came to be more widely popularized after the 1982 release of Frank Zappa’s parody music single Valley Girl in which his teenage daughter, Moon Zappa, monologued in the dialect behind his music. The dialect was also popularized by actresses Tracy Nelson in the TV comedy series Square Pegs (1882-1983), Cassandra Peterson in the role of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (beginning 1981) and Alicia Silverstone in the film Clueless (1995).[/b] http://www.laalmanac.com/LA/la10c.php [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIBg-w6TNLE[/youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIBg-w6TNLE [/quote]
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Was it just the influence of Hollywood with the valley girl accent originating right next to Hollywood?
I am asking because I am watching the video embedded below. The three guys in this video all have distinct, classic valley girl accents. It cheapens the seriousness of the topic. Why did the valley girl accent become dominant in English?
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