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Where is the next generation of slang to come from? Not from Valley Girl, the argot made famous lately by Singer Frank Zappa and his daughter, who is named Moon Unit Zappa. "Val" is really a sort of satire of slang, a goof on language and on the dreamily dumb and self-regarding suburban kids who may actually talk like that. It would come out all wrong if a minister were to compose his sermon in Val. "The Lord is awesome," he would have to begin. "He knows that life can sometimes be, like, grody-grody...
From Teen-Age Land comes a new species: the Val...
...Val Gal does not have to come from California's San Fernando Valley, though indeed the subspecies Puella americana vallensis (PAV) was first identified in that beige outreach of Los Angeles. She can equally well be from some honker place like Lake Forest, Ill., or Longeyeland. She got to be called a Valley Girl because of the hot five-minute single record by that name in which Frank Zappa and his maximum brilliant 15-year-old daughter Moon Unit lampooned the San Fernando species and its tribal habits. Valley Girls are by no means mere pubescent versions...
Meanwhile, a lot of Melvins who must have Val daughters have been writing them up in neat magazines and newspapers, not to mention major cool calendars, coloring books, beach towels, T shirts and lapel buttons. Two books on the Valley Girl's way of life are to be published in the next few weeks. CBS's fall lineup even has a sitcom called Square Pegs featuring...
...space cadets assume that Val Gals are simply updated versions of the 1940s bobbysoxer. Kiss my tuna! One conspicuous difference: the amount of billies a true Val pours into clothes, sunglasses, tanning oil, lip gloss, Tab, Doritos, Kahlúa brownies, Bubblicious chewing gum, beer (Heinies and Lowies), burritos, movies, Harlequin romances, records (anything by Journey, Rush, Van Halen, AC/DC) and movies (alltime fave: Mommie Dearest). Other Total Necessities: a blow dryer, a Walkman and at least one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion, crowding mondo cool stores from the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to the Galleria...