Draft:North Beach Carnegie Mellon Dialect of San Francisco
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North Beach Carnegie Mellon English is a dialect of the English language that has been influenced by the tech 'frat-bro' culture of the SF Bay Area. It was first discovered in popularity among tech workers in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, among those included a large population of Carnegie Mellon University graduates. The dialect is largely spoken in SF Bay Area, mostly among tech workers in social settings.
Very few people outside of the SF Bay Area can fully understand the dialect, but words can usually be identified due to their context in use and connection to words popular to the English dictionary in American pop culture. The dialect is still developing and rapidly changing, with new words and accents being discovered everyday.
Accent
The accent is most commonly identified as an American 'frat boy' accent with an added level of loudness and confidence that is commonly referred to as 'cringe'.
Features of American pop-culture influence
North Beach Carnegie Mellon English takes a lot of influence from American pop culture, with influence commonly found in common slang American Gen-Z slang. Some of the words that influenced the vocabulary of the dialect the most:
- bruh (n.): The best answer to literally anything.[1]
- cap (adj.): the word lying but built different.[2]
- chalked (adj.): The feeling or sense that all hope is lost and the current circumstance will only end in sadness and disappointment.[3]
- cuh (n.): A word that a takuache uses. It's like saying homie or bro.[4]
- suh (excl.): "suh" is short for "What's up?" and is used by really really really really stoned stoners that are too lazy and stoned to use whole sentences.[5]
- Summit (n.): The most popular point of a popular Call of Duty: Warzone map.
Common vocabulary
| North Beach Carnegie Mellon English term | American pop-culture term | Standard English term | English translation |
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References
- ^ "Urban Dictionary: Bruh". Urban Dictionary.
- ^ "Urban Dictionary: Cap". Urban Dictionary.
- ^ "Urban Dictionary: Chalked". Urban Dictionary.
- ^ "Urban Dictionary: Cuh". Urban Dictionary.
- ^ "Urban Dictionary: suh". Urban Dictionary.