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0 pointskeiferski1y ago0 comments

Sure but there is still a particular communication style that prevails, and people adopt it, or try to adopt, to fit in. It’s less about the accent or vocabulary and more about the tone.

A lot of this was parodied pretty effectively by the Silicon Valley TV show.

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tayo421y ago· 1 in thread

I don't think that's location based. More likely industry.

Even in California once you leave SaaS /software /internet startups the corporate culture is different.

My wife doesn't have pronoun police at her California office job. Me working in web software, I had a guy from the Midwest scold me about pronouns.

keiferskiOP1y ago

I guess what would be interesting (and what my original comment was about) is how / if the California communication style got started in SV and then traveled around everywhere else via the tech industry. I think it likely started as an aspect of a particular location and then became an industry thing later.

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