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Originally Posted by TSteven
I am happy to know that sarcasm, self deprecating humor - and all that stuff - has not been lost on some. 
Totally.
How nice for you. And "NorCal"? Who says that?
I am so sure.
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I think it is a little off to make generalizations about California speech when you grew up in Kentucky and moved to the Bay Area as an adult. As someone who was born and raised in San Francisco proper, I find it insulting to attribute Valley Girl speech (which is from a different region of California) to all of California. If you had used "hella" as an example I wouldn't have mentioned it. No one I know over uses the words: like, for sure, totally gag me with a spoon, or has spoken with a Valley Girl accent. I am quite thankful I speak accentlessly
NorCal is a younger generation thing, I see decals on vehicles in Idaho and Washington that belong to students from Northern California. I'm a bit older so I don't say it, but it is now the common vernacular, as Valley Girl speech was 25+ years ago.