More on California Vocabulary

I have been pondering this for a day or two and California English really is a new vocabulary. In Tokyo, I was surrounded by Brits, Kiwis, Aussies, Canadians and a whole bunch of other non-Japanese nationalities. Depending on how long we had been living there, our own communication became peppered with Japanese vocab and its associated meanings as well as the nuances of the in the other English-speaking (or not) languages we encountered. I think this is a fascinating topic for discussion. Still, in my current environment, I am on the receiving end so I must simply listen and eventually "get" what a word means here. It's an interesting phase of the returnee process.