"bounced across a Saudi Satellite Dish - through your brain to California English"
My take on the satellite dish reference is actually that its a reference to cell phones. To me, I imagine this young and relatively intelligent, well-spoken college girl from the east coast whose vernacular is being corrupted by the 'california english' being spoken around her in her new LA locale. What better image than this corruption happening via cell phone - the language (like everything else in modern society) is sent via text and cell calls, bounced across a satellite dish (which I believe is noted as 'Saudi' for political and societal implications), and enters her brain to form "California English." God knows texting is ruining our language as it is -- adding a valley-girl bent to it only worsens the degradation! ((no offense to Cali folks!))
I agree with most of mobiusstrip's line-by-line breakdown, and I thought I could possibly fill in that blank. Just my opinion of course!
"bounced across a Saudi Satellite Dish - through your brain to California English"
My take on the satellite dish reference is actually that its a reference to cell phones. To me, I imagine this young and relatively intelligent, well-spoken college girl from the east coast whose vernacular is being corrupted by the 'california english' being spoken around her in her new LA locale. What better image than this corruption happening via cell phone - the language (like everything else in modern society) is sent via text and cell calls, bounced across a satellite dish (which I believe is noted as 'Saudi' for political and societal implications), and enters her brain to form "California English." God knows texting is ruining our language as it is -- adding a valley-girl bent to it only worsens the degradation! ((no offense to Cali folks!))
I agree with most of mobiusstrip's line-by-line breakdown, and I thought I could possibly fill in that blank. Just my opinion of course!