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Article in need of heavy editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.171.90.182 (talk) 09:14, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Bay Area slang is influenced by Hyphy and hip hop music, Mexican culture, Asian immigration, and Eastern European immigration. Common in daily speech will be words like ay-yah, alë, garázh,blin, bun-dan, hasta la bye bye, and namaste." I'm from the Bay and I've never heard anyone say any of that. Hasta la bye bye? I mean its possible that people somewhere use this frequently but I dont think its very common at all —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.231.14.129 (talk) 05:23, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

pinche maricon[edit]

This article sucks the fat one. 206.53.147.254 (talk) 06:47, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Whoever wrote the part about Spanish-influenced slang not being popular in the Orange County region must never have been to Santa Ana. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.94.209.35 (talk) 23:19, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

merge with "California English"[edit]

This article is terrible. The so-called Bay Area hip hop slang is not unique to California; it is unique to those who follow American hip-hop culture.

The absence of a section on distinctive words such as "like," and constructs such as "I'm all," or "he's all" in storytelling are more distinctive linguistic hallmarks of California dialects. Slang is so much a part of California English that there is no point in separating this slang article from the main dialect article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.245.220.240 (talk) 00:29, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

O yea "he's (all) like ...", "I'm (all) like ..." Pretty common now that I think about it. - M0rphzone (talk) 05:51, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Betty" from 1995?[edit]

The term "Betty" in reference to a pretty girl did not originate from the Clueless movie, and doubtful it came from Beverly Hills. It was widespread in San Diego at least since the early 1980's, particularly within the surfer culture. It might refer to Betty Rubble; in surfer culture, a "Barney" refers to a nerd, so a "Betty" would be logical for a pretty girl, especially one that could do better than a "Barney". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.103.86.26 (talk) 02:41, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Blocks?[edit]

I'm removing the reference to "blocks" as Northern California slang since it's a standard dictionary definition and its use is firmly established in major cities. You wouldn't find anybody in New York city telling somebody how many miles away something is when it's 15 blocks away. Perhaps somebody should research the use of "miles" in urban areas, and determine if that's a California aberration. That use took me by surprise but it would need citations before I'd add it.Hagrinas (talk) 16:19, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Northern California Slang[edit]

Does this section (as of the time of this comment) even belong? Mentioning what is not used is not defining slang. "Frisco" is slang in other places, so mentioning alternatives would be appropriate if they were slang. But they aren't. "The city" is used coast to coast to refer to the nearby large city or urban center, or even the nearest small city by small town residents. Hagrinas (talk) 16:27, 20 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some Suggestions[edit]

The use of headings and sub-headings is understandable and clear. However many of the sections could use some more balance. For instance, the section entitled Central California Slang only has one sentence in it providing no examples of slang or how it would have originated. It seems like the "Northern California Slang" has the most information and the rest of the sections are very unbalanced in the article. Also in the "San Francisco Bay Area hip-hop culture slang" sub-section there is just a large list of slangs and no explanation as to how they came to be. Finally, most of the references are from blogs and forums which are not reliable resources. Gelainamah (talk) 04:13, 19 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]