Do Valley Girls still exist?

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  • rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
    rootlesscosmo said:
    "hecka" is my shit.

  • rootlesscosmo said:
    prof_rockwell said:
    thesolelife said:
    ***hella***

    'hella' is associated primarily with Northern California. GAWD!

    folls under the age of 30 will not remember this, but it used to be even more granular: this was not a N CA term so much as an SF Bay Area term. Santa Cruz folks were def. not using this term until the mid-to-late- 90s. and since then it's spread even further south. seems like it's CA-wide at this point.

    It's mos deff a Bay thing. Doesn't sound right unless you're from there. Heads in LA don't say it much. Very rare in fact.

    One of my old Berkeley homegirls visited recently. Hearing her say hella was a strange blast from the past.

    Hecka has been in my vocab since 89, though. (I lived in the Bay back then). Still love it.

  • prof_rockwell said:
    thesolelife said:
    ***hella***

    'hella' is associated primarily with Northern California. GAWD!

    first personal exposure:


  • According to wiki this is one of the earliest instances of a valley girl in '76.



    skip to 4:33 if you don't want to watch the skit. I couldn't embed because of copyright claim.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    I was watching Halloween and PJ says Totally a bunch of times, and this is '78.
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