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Originally Posted by TSteven
As I noted before, my initial reply was sarcastic and made in jest. Too bad that was not conveyed as well as I had hoped.
And while I may not have been born or reared here, and have only lived in the Bay Area for over twenty years, I do have a keen ear to California speech patterns. And I can report that I do hear variations of valspeak in and around the San Francisco Bay Area all the time.
For what it is worth, I found this from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. So you know it's got to be true.  (That is sarcasm just in case you didn't get it.  ) The bolding and underlining are mine.
I will have to trust your personal experience on what is happening in Idaho and Washington. However, I have not noticed any "NorCal" decals on vehicles nor do I hear it as part of the vernacular here in the San Francisco Bay Area. From personal experience, the Bay Area residents *I* know (starting as young as preschool and beyond) refer to the area as Bay Area. Not "NorCal". But I do not doubt that there are plenty of "NorCal folk" who say it. Just like I am sure that there are NorCals (persons of NorCal?) that perhaps over use "like" now and again.
Y'all have a nice day.  |
They have the decals on their vehicles because they aren't living at home. You don't need to advertise where you're from if you're currently there. Idaho plates are designated by county, so everyone knows where your car is registered, and a general area of where home is (except some kids from Sandpoint have those oval stickers with three letters SPT, but that's Bonner County, and kind of special). Washington doesn't do that, but the NorCal stickers are mostly used by athletes, as many student athletes are from Northern and Southern California at both UI and WSU. The Alaskan kids have Alaskan Grown stickers, and it is just how people identify their home while away from it.
I don't know where and who you're hanging around, but for my social group, the "like" speech was not acceptable, and as I said, no one I know speaks that way. Most of my cohort is still living in the Bay Area, as I was one of the few to leave for more than four years. Perhaps it is a San Francisco proper thing, Glitter650 and LucyKKG could weigh in on it as they are local but not the same zip or area code. Likely I'm just an anomaly, as every kid I grew up with.