Karen A. Placek
San Francisco, CA
October 14, 2018
Police Chief
2323 Mariposa Street
Room 2075
Fresno, CA 93721
559.621.7000
Dear Chief Dyer,
Have you ever considered the Valley Girl a cue? As you approach your retirement and as your contract has been extended to afford you a good one I would like to provide you with the pièce de ré·sis·tance. As I was born and raised in San Francisco the following information is very old and 'The Valley Girl' terms had come to my town in the 1970s. Sayings "gag me with a spoon" and "totally man" with a said accent populated our schools while at the same exact time we (being kids at the time) winced at the very thought of something so diabolical as that "gag me with a spoon", the reference was for or simply put, should you give them (the girls in the sticks) heroin than they (the girls in the Malls) would not talk or tell the police about the persons heroin usage. As this was being spread as a disease we (the kids in my town) were horrified and silent as after meeting one of those "Valley Girls" the word traveled even faster that they were really mean and very vindictive.
As I had to suffer the Jim Jones horror in November 1978 I fell to a greater silence as in that same month our Mayor was assassinated along with Harvey Milk a really cool guy that had provided our town with leadership and progression that was found to be natural. Pacman by Atari (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcBC-s1baSg) saw me through those tougher times and I lost track of where anyone was on the attempt to inform any Police Department of 'The Valley Girl' horror and speak, known as the brightest, biggest converse of communicating drugs at the time.
Finally, this is on the record, what a tremendous day and might your Real Crime Center process this for only one moment while the demand for solution is required due to the time span. For your information or surplus: Members Only jackets became the conversation and the wares for anyone who could purchase one and proved in a weird fashion of clothing that our obstruction was in said. The other big tell was our shoes, each of us placed a penny in each of our Penny Loafers, this was a trying time. The other popular out was being a Preppy, or at the very least I was accused a tiresome amount of that one.
The following picture is rather gross however it impresses the point and at the time everyone in my town understood the stab or better called the 'stick' known commonly as the needle, please update your mind and understand that at the time you lived in 'The Sticks'.
Thank you for your attention in this matter and might your Officers aid you in this finance of regard for your hard work has been shown and to leave on such a note would be more than a wristwatch at your retirement party.
Yours truly,
Karen A. Placek
San Francisco, California
For personal contact information please contact SFP/Mounted Unit inside of Golden Gate Park. "Trust is what gives our officers the authority to do their job and the legitimacy to police neighborhoods. This trust must be continually earned and should never be taken for granted" as per https://www.fresno.gov/police/
Thank you for your candor. KAP
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The term "Valley Girl" and the Valley manner of speech was given a wider circulation with the release of a hit 1982 single by Frank Zappa titled "Valley Girl", on which Moon Zappa,
Frank's then fourteen-year-old daughter, delivered a monologue in
"Valleyspeak" behind the music. This song popularized phrases such as "grody to the max" and "gag me with a spoon".
Valleyspeak or Valspeak is an American sociolect, originally of the San Fernando Valley in Southern California.
This sociolect became an international fad for a certain period in the
1980s and 1990s, with a peak period from around 1981 to 1985. Many
phrases and elements of Valleyspeak, along with surfer slang and skateboarding slang, have become staple elements of the California English dialect lexicon, and in some cases wider American English (such as the widespread use of "like" as a discourse marker).
Origin
An early appearance of Valleyspeak and the Valley Girl stereotype was through the character of Jennifer DiNuccio, played by Tracy Nelson in the 1982–1983 sitcom Square Pegs. According to an interview with Nelson included on the 2008 DVD release of the series, she developed the character's Valleyspeak and personality prior to the Zappa recording becoming popular.[1]
Among the recognizable characters with Valley Girl accents are Hillary Banks (Fresh Prince of Bel Air,) Cher Horowitz of Clueless and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.[citation needed]
Features
- High rising terminal (also called "up speak" or "uptalk") is a defining feature of Valleyspeak. Statements have a rising intonation, causing declarative language to appear interrogative to listeners unfamiliar with the dialect. Research on uptalk has found a number of pragmatic uses, including confirming that the interlocutor follows what is being said and indicating that the speaker has more to say and so their conversation partner should not interrupt them (also called "floor holding").[2] The high rising terminal feature has been adopted by speakers beyond the traditional users of Valleyspeak, including men[3][4] and New Zealanders[5].
- "Like" as a discourse marker, often used as an approximative adverb.
- "To be like" as a colloquial quotative. "Like" (always unstressed) is used to indicate that what follows is not necessarily an exact quotation of what was said, but captures the meaning and intention of the quoted speech. As an example, in "And I was like, 'don't ever speak to my boyfriend again,'" the speaker is indicating that they may or may not have literally said those words, but they conveyed that idea.[citation needed]
See also
- Filler (linguistics)
- Jive filter, a novelty program that translates English into parody forms
- Like (discourse particle)
- Clueless, a 1995 film that prominently features Valleyspeak
- Pink Five, a Star Wars parody fanfilm about a Valley girl character
- Preppy
- Gap Girls & The Californians – Saturday Night Live sketches, prominently featuring Valleyspeak phrases.
- Sexy baby voice
- Vocal fry register
Notes
- "Valley Girl Talk". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
External links
- Origins of Valspeak, YouTube video with Tracy Nelson from Square Pegs DVD commentary.
- cs.utexas.edu: "Valspeak" text translator
- Lotozo, Eils (September 4, 2002). "The way teens talk, like, serves a purpose". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Archived from the original on December 13, 2008. Citing Siegel, Muffy E. A. (2002). "Like: The Discourse Particle and Semantics". Journal of Semantics. 19 (1): 35–71. doi:10.1093/jos/19.1.35.
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