Stephen, Sorry to report but Val Gal has come east with a vengeance. It threatens to supplant my beloved "Yooperese" in Michigan. Boys don't speak Val. Instead many of them try to emulate their favorite Rapper or Hip Hop star. I've heard the label "Wigger" given to it. Example:
Me: Good Morning John J: Yo, What up G. Me: Turn to page 347 J: Whatchu mean? You on crack or what? Like Annette, I also have a great view of front and back eternal cleavage too. Girls act like I'm jealous and male outrage is amazing when I tell them I see their underwear. I get accused of being a "stalker". Sigh, Do they still make sans-i-belt pants? They were so cool in 1969! Jodi Jodi Gabert Reed City HS It's 14 degrees, 3 feet of snow on the ground and 15 days until vacation. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:56 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Foreign accent syndrome 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 --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
