#buffy speak

[besttropeevershowdown]

The Best Trope Tournament: Round 1, Side A

Which trope is better?

Gambit Pileup

Buffy Speak

Voting ended onOct 29, 2023

Gambit Pileup

Gambit Pileup - TV Tropes

A Gambit Pileup involves two or more people with completely separate agendas each hatching complicated plans. The storyline is thrown into c

Propaganda:

It's so fun to see multiple intelligent characters come up with complex plans and how they interact with each other!

Buffy Speak

Buffy Speak - TV Tropes

Any of a variety of speech patterns used to indicate that a character, while intelligent, is perhaps too young, too inexperienced, and/or in

Propaganda:

i'm biased bc btvs is my favorite show ever but the dialogue style has had me in a chokehold since i was a kid! "

[atlasshrugd]

buffy stans, does anyone else prefer the Buffy Speak podcast over the Buffering the Vampire Slayer podcast?

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Even ‘Inspector Spacetime’ isn’t immune to Buffy Speak,

purposefully vague, yet specific enough language for viewers to understand.

‘Get that slashy cat thing.’

[vigilantsycamore]

The ultimate fusion of technobabble and Buffy speak is technobuffy and if you unlock it you obtain infinite energy

[beingjuliamalkovich]

Buffy was hella revolutionary in many ways, but especially in its language. The way that each character had a unique and creative voice made the series a joy to watch. Termed “Buffy speak,” the show played with speech by turning phrases around, abbreviating words, and liberally sprinkling dialogue with pop-culture references. Creator Joss Whedon is something of a Shakespeare buff, so this creativity makes perfect sense. 

[internutter]

How much Buffy Speak can you get in one story? -- Gallifreya Kay so like, me and the scooby gang were in napville over our one-starbucks town. It should'a been like a major stress drain to take the van and...

@callmegallifreya - this is so totally blair witchy

[marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer]

justanothercinemaniac reblogged your video and added:

This is fantastic.

Oh thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

[marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer]

Hi! I just saw your post about the presentation for BTVS "Slayer Speak". I watched the video and I'm really interested. Would you be willing to share some of your research and/or conclusions with me? Great job!

Oh wow. Well, it's not really "research", I worked with Michael Adams' book + everything I had read for my college class about the processes of word formation and I used the glossary from his book and read the scripts (because he published his book before the show was over so there were a lot of things from season 6 and season 7 that are missing) to provide examples and definitions.

The thesis of my presentation was that the writers of the show used all of the traditional processes of word formation in novel ways to create what we call "Slayer Slang" or "Buffy Speak", they pushed the envelope and stimulated and influenced linguistic change in American slang. I talked about all the processes of word formation (the doc is 15 pages long...) but if you're interested in anything in particular I could a make a post. Are you familiar with word formation processes?