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The team recorded and analysed the voices of 23 native Californians aged between 18 and 22. - How is this even news? They're saying they happened to find 23 p

• Zhenya 12y ago
  I started researching this when I noticed it was highly prevalent in my company. Furthermore, new people would join (from other parts of the country) and would pick up this speech pattern within days.
  • dredmorbius 12y ago
    Certain speech patterns are very highly addictive and tend to be adopted quickly. I notice this most particularly with southern drawls (US) and regional northeastern accents (New Jersey, Long Island, Southie, Bronx, etc.). Others not so much (southwest / native American, northern plains (Wisconsin / Minnesota).