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Post by jessesopher on Aug 14, 2009 17:25:40 GMT -5
Do people seem to look at you weird when you use Whedon-language in conversations? What I mean is adding "ness" and "y" to random words. And rambling on and on about something until they just tell you to shut up.
I don't know if I'm describing what I'm asking very well, but you all know that the most unique thing about Whedon's shows is the character dialogue. He has a very unique voice for his characters. Especially Willow, Buffy, Xander, and Anya.
Do you know what I mean?
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Aug 14, 2009 17:47:47 GMT -5
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Post by snizapman6294 on Aug 14, 2009 19:44:35 GMT -5
i used the phrase "Single white female'd" the other day...
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Post by Greer on Aug 15, 2009 10:59:12 GMT -5
I always add "y" to certain words...plus there are just tons of things I always say, such as "Can you vague that up for me?" or "That makes the kind of sense that's...not". There are tons more but of course I can't grab them off the top of my head right now...thanks for the link about the book! I am thinking of buying it now...
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Aug 15, 2009 14:26:13 GMT -5
Yes, Buffy has had quite the effect on the English language.  I myself am a fan of adding -y to anything I can. It's fun! |
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Post by Erica on Aug 15, 2009 17:53:51 GMT -5
I *always* do that. It's become habit I guess, after watching it so much.  |
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Post by HannahSlayer on Oct 7, 2009 22:03:12 GMT -5
Haha. Yes.
I've been saying "five by five" alot lately.
Like when people ask how I'm doing, they look at me like I'm stupid, but I don't care.
Putting a 'y' on the end of words is great too, I do it all the time.
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Post by Angel Beast on Oct 8, 2009 1:00:52 GMT -5
I sometimes use the Buffy slang. 5 by 5 the most. I tend to use Cordy's "look at whose all Little-Miss/Mr.-(insert word/s)" alot also
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Oct 8, 2009 15:59:19 GMT -5
I used y or ness in a youtube comment. This dude asked me why. I explained that Buffy used to do that(I explained a bit about the show). I think he knew of the show, but still didn't get why I did it.
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Post by Rebecca on Oct 8, 2009 17:20:57 GMT -5
I used y or ness in a youtube comment. This dude asked me why. I explained that Buffy used to do that(I explained a bit about the show). I think he knew of the show, but still didn't get why I did it. Some people are dense. I used to do it, not so much now. Thanks for the link to the book! Thinking of getting for myself as a Christmas gift  |
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Oct 8, 2009 17:55:19 GMT -5
Speaking of this thread, I actually used the Whedonverse as an example of a speech community I consider myself a part of in a recent Sociolinguistics paper. It was neat getting to use the word "splainy" in a paper and get away with it. I hope those of you getting the book have as much fun reading it as I did (though to be fair, I AM a linguistics major, so that stuff just naturally attracts me ). |
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Oct 9, 2009 8:13:17 GMT -5
What does a linguistics student do? What kind of subject is it? I know it's language-y, but otherwise I'm as clueless as Alicia Silverstone.
See what I did there? Anyone get the reference?
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Post by Hellbound Hyperion on Oct 9, 2009 11:28:59 GMT -5
What does a linguistics student do? What kind of subject is it? I know it's language-y, but otherwise I'm as clueless as Alicia Silverstone. See what I did there? Anyone get the reference? (Thanks for asking, I looove to talk about linguistics. ) I'll stick this in a spoiler tag so as not to interrupt the flow of the thread. Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The purpose is to gain a complete understanding of the various aspects that make up human language. The primary topics of linguistics are: -Phonology and phonetics, which is the study of the sounds humans make to create words and meaningful sounds (as in, sounds that help communicate something). This usually entails learning all the parts of the mouth from teeth to epiglottis where we know humans can make sounds. (For instance, many Native Americans use their uvulas to make sounds for their words; English speakers could also make the sounds, but it's more difficult because English doesn't have any uvular sounds). -Morphology and syntax, the study of words, sentences, and the grammar structures that help maintain some semblance of order in the language. Here, we observe the various methods of creating new words from simple ones. In English, we do this as part of our early education, as in the superlatives (wet, wetter, wettest). To break it down, morphology is studying words - how they are formed and the various structures of making words - and syntax is the rule system governing sentences, grammar, etc. -Semantics, the study of word meaning. This is one of the more complicated aspects of linguistics; historically, words change meanings all the time. ("Nice" carried a much more negative connotation when it first came into being.) Rather than doing a pure history lesson of word meanings changing over time (that's etymology, which is basically a mix of morpho-syntax and semantics with history) semantics focuses on the methods of how words mean what they mean. -Sociolinguistics, the study of language in a social perspective. This field applies sociology to language and observes why humans make the language choices that they do in the context of their social environment. Focus here is on dialects, speech communities, and other methods of communicating with language socially. The field itself has many applications in a wide variety of fields, from theoretical phonology to anthropology (linguistic anthropology is one of the four fields of the holistic study of anthropology that the American Anthropology Association recommends teaching to students in the U.S.) I myself am taking a Computer Science approach - I'm learning programming as well as other methods of communicating with computers and technology, possibly to either help other linguists with their own work in their respective fields, or else to move on to a Master's in Computer Science. I haven't actually decided yet what I'm doing post-graduation. |
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Post by Skytteflickan88 on Oct 10, 2009 10:06:21 GMT -5
Thanks HH. That sounds fascinating.
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Post by The Girl In Question on Oct 11, 2009 20:06:32 GMT -5
I always talked like that before I ever discovered the Whedonverse, lol. That's one of the reasons I became such a fan. People always have thought I was a bit weird for that. |
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Post by Xander-Shaped Friend on Oct 17, 2009 17:25:07 GMT -5
I don't know if it was before or after Buffy, but I tend to talk in puns. For some reason though, that wit doesn't really emerge when I'm typing. Oh well. One day I recall using Willow's "ill beat you to death with a shovel, a something disclaimer is nobody's friend". I just got looks. Probably because it's all in the delivery.
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