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Thread: The Valley Girls
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06-04-2013 #21
Re: The Valley Girls
Obviously i wasn't the only one that was confused about your meaning.
I've been accused of sounding like a valley girl (more specifically like a belong in the 90s film "clueless") by my black peers.
I took it in the context in which it applied to me, which is all one really can do...go off of personal experience.
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06-04-2013 #22
Re: The Valley Girls
First let me explain that I'm not talking about the Chanel chick specifically because she very well could be from a well to do family from Valencia or something for all I know.
But this seems to be the go-to style for the girls and I'm just curious as to why? If you're an "uneducated ghetto person" that destroys the english language, talking like the girls from Clueless isn't going to make you any more educated or give you a higher vernacular.
Why not just be yourself whatever that is? It has nothing to do with the type of words you use or you level of vocabulary, it has to do with certain style of speech that is, if nothing else annoying to hear it over and over again from every girl. They couldn't all be from the valley could they? Hell I know bitched from Inglewood that talk like that so where did they "learn" it?
"Give them nothing, but take from them, everything".. Spartan King Leonidas
http://www.redroom.com/video/tim-wis...whiteness-clip
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06-04-2013 #23
Re: The Valley Girls
So a single day goes by and you forget all about this? We have got to stop being so sensitive to every little thing. This is why when we have a legitimate gripe no one wants to hear it. If you would have just taken the time to think about my initial statement (that goes for the other people that you pointed out as well) you would have understood that it was meant for you or someone like you "an educated black person that understands how to speak proper english and doesn't feel as though they SHOULD sound like an ignorant, uneducated, ghetto person", because the post had absolutely nothing to do someone sounded educated because there's nowhere in that style of dialect that says "she's got doctorates degree written all over her". That's a big misconception in your head if that's what you believe "Valley Girl" equates to.
Okay so there's no such thing as a fake person anymore. No one's worried about "keeping it real" anymore (I just thought about it and realized that I'm the only person still saying that.. Damn). You know what, fuck it. Starting tomorrow I'm sounding like the guy from the "Most Interesting Man in the World" commercials. End of story.
"Give them nothing, but take from them, everything".. Spartan King Leonidas
http://www.redroom.com/video/tim-wis...whiteness-clip
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06-04-2013 #24
Re: The Valley Girls
Oh hun but everyone loves me *bates eyes*
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09-16-2013 #25
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Re: The Valley Girls
@dafame Hi, this is Chanel Couture! I have just now stumbled across your posting regarding your curiosity about the way I speak. First off, I am not from southern California (speciafically the valley) nor have a claimed to be. I am a southern girl, from North Carolina and very proud of where I have traveled from. I am college educated and I know how to conduct myself well in the way that I speak. It is simply my natural feminine voice which I have developed while transitioning. I've always been very soft spoken, however I always speak clearly with good diction. I do still have a splash of my southern accent in my voice, but it has faded slightly since I've been in Cali. I do not try to speak "white" as you would say. Honestly, I don't think anyone should label or associate someone's dialect or tone of voice with a specific race. You speak how you speak.. I don't try to sound like someone else or a group of people who I think are superior, because I don't think any group of people are superior to myself.
Addressing the comment you made about "white clients" .. I don't change my voice for them or any others, I'm just me.. They either like it or they don't, but I've never had one to tell me that I sound like a valley girl or that they think I sound "white over the phone. They always tell me how professional, sweet, and well mannered I sound, nothing less. I don't find the valley talk much appealing myself, but hey its just an opinion.
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