US Slang Expressions

[melclaros]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
 
> I don't suppose it would be any help to point out that talking like
> that swept across the U.S. in the *eighties,* and had probably been
> old in California long before that?
> 
> Yeah, you're right -- probably not.> 
> Around here, people still end sentences with question marks, but 
they> don't pronounce their words like Valley Girls any more.
>


me: Oh thank GOD! 
I broke into a cold sweat there for a minute thinking it might be 
*coming back*! I couldn't deal with another decade of 'mallrats' 
with 'sharkfins' squeaking, 'youknow?' all over the place. 

Mel, breathing easier in the US where the valley thing is over and 
done with.