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Buffyspeak
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English
Etymology
From en Buffy speak.
Noun
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en fandom slang The invented slang used by characters on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
en Slayer Slang
en 2006 Jennifer Ouellette The Physics of the Buffyverse https://books.google.com/books?id=d-Tu_3y9EXwC&pg=PT17&dq=%22Buffyspeak%22 unnumbered As one would say in Buffyspeak, soak in the irony for a moment.
en 2007 Dear Angela: Remember My So-Called Life https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=-o-FAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=buffyspeak 216 During "The Writing for Teens and Television" symposium, in an exchange about adolescent language, Whedon readily admits, as he has done in other interviews, that Buffyspeak was his creation and not intended to be mimetic.
en 2008 Delia Chiaro; Christine Heiss; Chiara Bucaria Diana Bianchi Taming teen-language: The adaptation of Buffyspeak into Italian Between Text and Image: Updating Research in Screen Translation https://books.google.com/books?id=uAV20b0Z4FoC&pg=PT196&dq=%22distinctiveness+of+Buffyspeak%22 187 The linguistic distinctiveness of Buffyspeak is not reproduced in the Italian version, where teenagers' speech style is, at most, characterized by an informality which does not have any particular connotation as 'youth language.'
en
A form of dialog in televised fiction, characterized by the use of vague slang and neologisms.
en Whedonspeak
en 2012 N. Edward Matavka; Ronald Hubbard; Rolf Krause Study: Wearing One's Hat 127 Jargon applies to things which would not be able to be described otherwise, except through Buffyspeak; in contrast, double-speak attempts to make things look better than they really are, and to hide the truth.
en eponyms
en Buffy the Vampire Slayer Jargon