On 9 Mar 2007 at 8:12, Beth Benoit wrote: > The hideous example of "Young American Dialect" probably sounds even > worse to those not from New England, because in addition to what used > to be called "Val Gal" (remember that?it was a sort of mush-mouth > speech affectation used by teenaged girls, complete with its own little > obscure glossary),
Actually, I see from Beth's response that I didn't get it quite right. It's gender-specific, and so should be something like "Young Female American Dialect". I doubt that we'd hear any young American males talking like that. But unfortunately that name produces the forgettable acronym YFAD. Can we still call it "valley girl talk" or is that so last millenium? Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
