Re: Pro's & Kin's

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 13 Oct 2003 at 15:26, rogerkirk wrote:

> Personally, it sounds affected like "Valley Girl"
> talk - something one would expect from teenagers
> "Oh, MY GAWD", "Like", "Ya Know", "and then she 
> goes...", etc...
> 
> These are from alledgedly grown-up, adult announcers 
> doing news stories, commercials, etc. on adult-leaning 
> stations.

Letsee, "Valley Girl"  talk came along sometime in the 1980s, so there are probably plenty 
of adult women who learned to talk that way.

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