I think proper phonetics replaces the last "a" with an "h". "Baahstin".Musta been filmed in Baaastin.
I suspect you speak "Northern Californian". "Southern Californian" includes a lot of "like", as in "I speak, like, Californian."Here in Virginia,I get to make fun of them (& their accents),
but they can't do that to me,because I don't have one.
I speak "Californian".
Correct! But I do say "Dude",when mocking the California stereotype.
"Southern" can be challenging to learn Doug. But you probably figured that out already.
when we lived in the south (OK Florida - where the further north you go the further south you get) we were taught and experienced that:
The first thing you learn is
Fixin to
then Big old
and only third is y'all and all y'all