Beach Slang

November, 1984

Almost Every Place has a slang of its own, but I've never been anywhere that coins and spends local argot faster than Southern California. Maybe it's something about their image of themselves as artists of everything racy and new, but the kids who live in and around the smoggy umbra known as Los Angeles seem to have special muscles for chopping, sanding, glazing and buffing the language into something quite their own. Valley talk was the latest Southern California slang to become famous; but in...