I hate when people tell me I sound like I'm from California, because I assume that's a nicer way of telling me that I sound like a Valley Girl. (I hail from Encino, and, when I was a teenager, I sounded like a Clueless extra. But I like to think that I've come a long way since then!)
However, some people think the California accent is "warm and passionate."
"It's not hurried, it's not hostile, it's not caustic," Davis, a Los Angeles native who now lives in Santa Cruz, told KQED, which collected dozens of opinions on California speech patterns. "It's just people hanging out and chatting and having a good time."
You can click the pins on KQED's map to hear what Californians have to say about Californian accents. Like, totally do it!
[KQED]