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Add a counter example to the phonetic examples

I was born, raised, and have lived in the south bay area my entire life. And currently I am in the process of completing a civil engineering graduate degree at a well known bay area university. The phonetic examples in the article, really make no-sense to a native Californian because they are apparently written for a Northeastern audience that understand what the counter phonetic sounds like.

Also note that there are differences in word bundles, for example my use of "no-sense", is a phrase we know is considered rude by our transplanted northeastern coworkers, but is commonly used by Californians to simply say, 'I do not understand'. Granite07 (talk)

Regarding recent edits

Hawaii is the most ethnically diverse state in the US according to the latest census (2021). Viriditas (talk) 00:55, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A More Accurate Example of Northern California Usage of Hella

There exist good reasons to minimize the regional flare of example sentences for the comprehension of those without context on the regional vernacular slang and its peculiarities compared to other English accents in the US and elsewhere, that is clear enough. However, if the intention is to portray the Northern Californian regional language as it is spoken, these minor corrections make for a more natural example one would actually hear in the Bay Area, especially the East Bay (go Pioneers!), which if nothing else is of interest for most accurately rendering our regional dialect at this particular moment for posterity, if nothing else.

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Original: "I haven't seen you in hella long"

More Accurate Vernacular Usage: "I haven't seen you in hella days"

Even More Likely Usage: "I haven't seen you in hella days, how long you been out of Rita for?"

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Original: "This guacamole is hella good."

More Accurate Vernacular Usage: "This guacamole is hella bomb!"

Even More Likely Usage: "My girl made some guacamole and I was like 'Damn, this is hella bomb!'"

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Additional example of interest: "There were hella these fools all lined up, talking hella shit like always." <--- multiple times + multiple ways as mentioned in the article without an example.

Which using the original examples' subjects could be: "I hadn't seen you in hella long, but sure enough when we met up we hit that spot with that hella bomb guacamole like always, you know to chop it up and kick it a bit!" ThomasLeonHighbaugh (talk) 16:14, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Like everything on this project, you'll need a reliable source for inclusion. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 16:04, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]