What is a California Accent?

When I was in LA last month there were these four skinny bitches at a coffee shop on Robertson in WeHo just vocal frying each other. That is what I consider the modern California accent.

It does exist- But not just val-speak- Its kind of subtle, nasally- Mainly Southern California-

something is pronounced some-theeng.

talking is pronounced talk-eeng.

Words are shortened too.

I have heard a few native southern Californians pronounce decades as de-cuds.

The best exemplars of the modern California accent would be of course the Kardashians. Kimmy Schmidt did a great parody of the Kardashian accent but I could only find this little clip online.

My cousins grew up in San Francisco and they have awful, nasal accents. Very hard vowels like the upper Midwest, but not as homey.

Noah, Orange County.

This is such a fucking lie and you guys are filthy whores for stereotyping Californians.

Californians don't have an accent and if they do it's neutral.

It sounds almost Swedish to me, with a touch of New Orleans. That's what I think was being parodied in The Californians.

Every statement is a question? Everything you say has to be potentially confirmed??

Like, vowels get really sat on and raped? Loike, reeeeallly???

R6- Southern Californians DO have an accent/pronounce things differently. Its pretty subtle.

I love it though. It is a very nice accent (to me)

I grew up in the Great Lakes region and everyone outside of that area thought we sounded like the characters in Fargo. Even Fargo doesn't sound like Fargo. And then I heard people making fun of Indiana, using that accent!

Ignorant people are....ignorant.

Bo Derek said part of the reason she changed her name was because of how it sounded when spoken with a nasal Californian accent. Are you calling Bo Derek a liar?

The Californians

It's just like Christina on Flip or Flop on HGTV! That's what I always think a California accent is like.

The Californians is the most unfunny thing ever. I can’t believe they made it recurring. Is it only funny to New Yorkers?

Keep that up Easterners.

Californians are going to take over the country and when we do..

The Party Bros

[quote] Bo Derek said part of the reason she changed her name was because of how it sounded when spoken with a nasal Californian accent. Are you calling Bo Derek a liar?

I'm not calling her a great actress, that's for sure.

PubLIZity

No California salad is complete without these.

It is known as a Mexican accent.

California native here, lived in both big cities for all of my 40+ years.

So Cal does have its Val upseak. Subtle.

Bay Area has a neutral accent, accentuated by education or lack thereof.

Foreigners clearly the exception.

Central Valley does have its weird rural hokey speal. Vocabulary/expressions more so than accent.

Let me tell you some-theeng. I could really go for a ham-BURGER

(The burger is said very fast- ham is said like it is barely there, and "burger" is accented and said very fast...)

There really are some California accents/lingos- I love it.

I find California Phonetics fascinating. Love west coast folks.