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"textContent": "\n\nBefore California's start-up culture gave us its own quasi-corporate pidgin, full of \"circling back\" and \"thinking outside the box,\" a tiny town in Mendocino County decided to \"shark\" us all. If you don't get it, you're a \"brightlighter.\"\n\nLogging and farming town Boonville, in California's Anderson Valley, has its own language, \"Boontling,\" a dense and private vocabulary of Pomo words, Spanish, Irish brogue, and pure inside jokes. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Northern California has its own regional language, and they are making fun of you appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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