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> So I wonder if this Australian one is more of a "sociolect". If anyone has any info / pointers I'd love to learn more. Similar maybe to the "valley girl" Ame
by GuiA 10y ago
> So I wonder if this Australian one is more of a "sociolect". If anyone has any info / pointers I'd love to learn more.
Similar maybe to the "valley girl" American accent. Once perhaps a California only thing, now something you hear from teenage girls/women in their 20s all around the US (probably due to Hollywood, in part).
- sundvor 10y agoYep, that sounds right - looked up some videos depicting this, and there's a similar pattern to them both. Cheers.
- icebraining 10y agoInadvertently helped to spread by the Zappas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM