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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"What, you want to tempt the wrath of whatever from high atop the thing?"''
|'''Toby Ziegler'''|''[[The West Wing]]''}}
'''Buffy-Speak''' is that thing where they say that a guy is [[Motor Mouth|saying things too fast]], or can't figure out what the thing they want to say is, or doesn't have enough learning and stuff to say what the thing they mean is.
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The [[Giver of Lame Names|dude who's bad at naming things]] does this stuff a lot. This Buffy-Speak thing would be called Dialogue-Where-The-Speaker's-Intent-Exceeds-Their-Powers-Of-Vocabulary-For-Comedic-Effect or something if he was the word guy person, but he's not, so it isn't.
If you do things right,
Named for the way the teenagers and stuff talk in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. The show's creator guy, Joss Whedon, is sometimes said to have made this kind of writing stuff (also called Whedonspeak), but in terms of [[Truth in Television|the thing where arty stuff, like, imitates life?]] it's been around since waaay before Buffy. Relative to this trope, however, it ''was'' appropriate that Sunnydale was in, like, [[Valley Girl|California]].
Contrast with [[Totally Radical]]. Compare [[Person as Verb]]. See also [[Shaped Like Itself]] and [[Department of Redundancy Department]].
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== [[Anime|Japanese Cartoony Things]] ==
* In the ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' dub, on the way to Sensui's hideout, Yuusuke ask Kurama what the seeds he's spreading around are for, and our favourite red-haired [[Bishounen]] goes into an explanation about lighting their way, trailing off into phosphorus and bread crumbs. In that case, it sounded more like Kurama (who is a [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] [[Chessmaster]] and former [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|White Haired Pretty]]) was trying to Buffy-Speak so that [[Book Dumb|Yusuke]] would understand him.
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* Ali Al-Saachez from [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]] uses this trope to refer to his enemies, "Celestial-Whatchamacallit!". Not like "Being" is a hard word to say or remember, but try telling that to his face.
== [[
* Molly Hayes in ''[[Runaways]]''. Especially when written by Joss himself:
{{quote|'''Molly''': Why aren't you awesomed by me!?}}
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{{quote|'''Doomguy:''' You're huge! That means you have huge guts!}}
* [[Ultimate Spider-Man]], as most of its main characters are teenagers, is prone to this.
{{quote|'''Mary Jane''': And thus ends the [[Shaped Like Itself|tyrannical tyranny]] that was my life.
'''Peter''': What kind of goofy goofball lunatic thing are you doing now, you goofball goofy goofnut?? }}
* Seen a bunch with the third [[Blue Beetle]].
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* The ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' series is chock-full of Buffy-Speak. "There's a thingy over there." "A thingy?" "A door.", "You're not going to the thing"?, "Scott, look out! It's that guy!", etc.
== [[Fan
* ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' has moments of these because of the writing style, especially when [[Firefly|Simon]] shows up.
* ''[[My Immortal]]''. "Voldemort got a dude-ur-so-retarded look on his face."
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* In the fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6944079/4/Presidential_Initiation Presidential Initiation]'', [[Axis Powers Hetalia|America]] tries to explain who he is to the president...and does a really bad job of it as he says things like "I'm a national [[Anthropomorphic Personification|aromatherapy persecution]] or whatever the hell it's called!" Also used is the term "people/nation thingies."
== [[
* ''[[Ratatouille]]'''s Linguini, tired of the [[People Puppets|marionette]] treatment, tells Remy: "I am not your puppet! And you are not my puppet... controller... guy!"▼
* ''[[Toy Story]]'': "Your helmet does that... that... that whoosh thing!"▼
** Also, in ''[[Toy Story]] 3'':▼
{{quote|'''Chunk''' (referring to Buzz): "He's [[Hypocritical Humour|not the sharpest knife in the... place where they keep knives.]]" ▼
'''Sparks:''' Neither are you, Chunk. }}▼
* ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' has most of the song "Part of Your World" based on this when Ariel sings about her collection of land... gizmos, gadgets, whoosits, whatzits, and thingamabobs. She apparently improves her vocabulary as the song progresses, though.▼
** Previous to becoming a human, most of what Ariel knew about human things came from what [[The Ditz|Scuttle]] told her. This led to things like trying to blow bubbles out of a pipe and combing her hair with a fork when she was with Eric.▼
* "General...I propose we go forward with your [[Title Drop|Monsters Vs Aliens]] idea...thingie."▼
* ''[[Madagascar]]'' has an [[I Resemble That Remark]] example: "No, no, no… you don't talk now, okay? You're not so good with the putting the words together and their coming out good thing."▼
** Also, Julien. "After much deep and profound brain things inside my head ..."▼
== [[Film|Regular Movie Things In Movie Places]] ==▼
* Valentine from ''[[Mirror Mask]]'': "I will slip unnoticeable through the darkness like a dark, unnoticeable slippy thing." A notable example in that he doesn't hesitate at any point in the sentence. That's what he meant to say.
{{quote|"We will do what rich people do! We will bathe in... fish! Eat our weight in... chocolate buttons! Learn to play the concertina!"}}
* In the 2007'' [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|TMNT]]'' movie, Raphael says "The thing about you immortal stone guys is...you know you're immortal...and made of stone. I sound like Mikey!"
* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' also had this little exchange.
{{quote|'''Jay''': Hey, Kay. When do I get one of those...''[[Laser-Guided Amnesia|flashy-thingy-memory-messer-uppers]]''?
'''Kay''': When you grow up. }}
** or:
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* The remake of ''[[The Longest Yard]]'' gives us this gem:
{{quote|"He's so fast, he makes fast people look . . . not as fast."}}
* Lampshaded in ''[[Star Trek: The
{{quote|'''Kirk:''' Bones, there's a... thing... out there.
* In ''[[Hancock]]'':
{{quote|'''Bank robber:''' ''(holds up a deadman switch detonator)'' You know what this is?
'''Hancock:''' I'm guessing it's some sort of detonator-type deal. }}
▲* ''[[Ratatouille]]'''s Linguini, tired of the [[People Puppets|marionette]] treatment, tells Remy: "I am not your puppet! And you are not my puppet... controller... guy!"
▲* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'': "Your helmet does that... that... that whoosh thing!"
▲** Also, in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'':
▲{{quote|'''Chunk''' (referring to Buzz): "He's [[Hypocritical Humour|not the sharpest knife in the... place where they keep knives.]]"
▲'''Sparks:''' Neither are you, Chunk. }}
▲* ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' has most of the song "Part of Your World" based on this when Ariel sings about her collection of land... gizmos, gadgets, whoosits, whatzits, and thingamabobs. She apparently improves her vocabulary as the song progresses, though.
▲** Previous to becoming a human, most of what Ariel knew about human things came from what [[The Ditz|Scuttle]] told her. This led to things like trying to blow bubbles out of a pipe and combing her hair with a fork when she was with Eric.
▲* "General...I propose we go forward with your [[Title Drop|Monsters Vs Aliens]] idea...thingie."
▲* ''[[Madagascar]]'' has an [[I Resemble That Remark]] example: "No, no, no… you don't talk now, okay? You're not so good with the putting the words together and their coming out good thing."
▲** Also, Julien. "After much deep and profound brain things inside my head ..."
== [[Literature|Books And Scrolls And Other Stuff With Words]] ==
* Pops up occasionally in ''[[Discworld]]''. There was something similar to "Its eyes were as big as [[Shaped Like Itself|very big eyes]]"; lampshaded, in that the creature's eyes were traditionally described as being "as big as soup plates", but Tiffany had measured a soup plate and determined that they weren't. A substitute description was needed.
** Pratchett really likes these "what's-that-thing" quips. ''[[
{{quote|"What's dat fing? Dey goes all crumbly when you eat dem?"
"...''could'' be a lawyer."
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{{quote|''"If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, 'Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is, 'Put that in the other one in there.' And then if you ask them, 'in where?' they say, 'in there, of course.'"''}}
* In ''The Warlock'' by Michael Scott, Virginia Dare sves Billy the Kid from a 'raggedy lion-monster-thingy'. It's a sphinx.
* In ''[[
** Voldemort is also called "Lord Thingy" by Cornelius Fudge at one point.
* Guess what ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195175999 Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon]'' is about.
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"It is not something to eat," replied Sancho, "but something to govern and rule, and better than four cities or four judgeships at court." }}
=== [[Magazines|Glossy Book Things]] ===▼
== [[Live Action TV|TV With Real People Playing Fake People]] ==▼
* A parody of ''Antiques Roadshow'' in ''[[Mad]]'' had a few of the appraisers inspecting the "antiques" with a jeweler's loupe, or as they call it, a "thingamajig that jewelers use".▼
* [[Trope Namer|Obviously]], ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]].'' Interestingly, it's never referred to as "Buffy-speak" in the show, but in "I Only Have Eyes For You," Giles refers to it as "Xander-Speak".
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Buffy herself once.
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** Or Wash: "And we will call it... this land!"
** Another Jayne example features him explaining that looks aren't as deceiving as a [[Shaped Like Itself|low-down, dirty deceiver]].
::: And another
{{quote|'''Badger''': "You think you're better than other people!"
'''Mal''': "Just the ones I'm better than." }}
::: And another
{{quote|'''Jayne''': "If I wanted schoolin', I woulda gone to... school."}}
** It's safe to say that this is a general feature of [[Joss Whedon]]'s shows.
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{{quote|"Don't move, or I'll fill you full of... little yellow bolts of light!"}}
* ''[[Red Dwarf]],'' where the characters, knowing nothing about astro-navigation or the area of space they are traveling through, often use terms like "Swirly-thing alert!" Or, on occasion, a "wibbly thing".
{{quote|'''Kryten:''' Is it a wibbly thing or a swirly thing, sir?
'''Cat:''' At this early stage I'd hate to commit myself and wind up looking a fool! }}
** The pilot is usually the Cat, who navigates space by 'smell' among other things...
:: Though, once, Arnold Rimmer described somebody as "a total, total ... A word has yet to be invented to describe how totally whatever-it-is you are, but you are one. And a total, total one at that."
* In ''[[Merlin]]'', the title character describes a sword as "very... swordy".
* In ''[[Roundhouse]]'' (an early '90s Nickelodeon variety show), the character of Dad yells, "Flying out of windows like...things that fly out of windows!"
* Often happens to Jack Carter from ''[[Eureka]]'' when he has a hard time describing what the town's scientists have come up with to destroy the city this week. A typical example:
{{quote|'''Jack Carter''': I believe you have a device! That can create a wormhole, or bend time, or make you invisible... A wormholing, time-bending, invisibling device... that shields you from the mind!
'''Nathan Stark''': Yes, he said "invisibling". }}
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?
{{quote|'''Ryan:''' Fabric softener?
'''Colin:''' Well you can't have static cling! The burnoose will stick to his... *
* ''[[Hustle]]'': "Sometimes a bloke has to stand up for... what he stands for."
* ''[[Becker]]'', from the title character: "Quit hovering over me like... help me out, what hovers?"
* ''[[Frasier]]'': "It would be hard to sleep, thinking of you in the next room all hot and... hot."
* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'', "Well I'm guessing 'the gooery'" is Claudiaspeak for the neutralizer distribution machine." Hardly surprising when you consider that Buffy writer Jane Espenson co-created [[Warehouse 13]].
* In ''[[Stargate SG-
{{quote|'''O'Neill:''' You all know I take great pride in my title as Mr. Positive; however, we did destroy their de-Goa'ulding thing--might not they look unkindly on that?}}
** Even more so the one-shot character Burke in the episode ''Evolution, part 2''.
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* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', the one-man play that Eric writes contains the line, "The hot wind howled, like a kind of howling... hot... windy thing."
* Marshall, Ted, and Lily often fall into this mode of speaking on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', particularly when Robin and Barney aren't around. Stands to reason, as [[Alyson Hannigan]] is a Buffy alumn and the show creators are huge [[Joss Whedon]] fans.
* Radar from ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
{{quote|'''Radar:''' Sir, I was walking by and I noticed this gizmo came disconnected from the thingamabob and it wasn't dripping into the doohickey right.
'''BJ:''' You lost me with all the technical terms, Radar, but I get the picture. }}
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* From ''[[The Almighty Johnsons]]'', episode Folkmoot:
{{quote|'''Olaf:''' A thing is like a small thing, Folkmoot's like a bigger thing, it's not to be taken lightly, it's a big thing thing where important things are decided.}}
▲== [[Magazines|Glossy Book Things]] ==
▲* A parody of ''Antiques Roadshow'' in ''[[Mad]]'' had a few of the appraisers inspecting the "antiques" with a jeweler's loupe, or as they call it, a "thingamajig that jewelers use".
== [[Music|Pretty Sound Stuff]] ==
* [[They Might Be Giants]] have a song called "They'll Need a Crane" consisting of this sort of thing. It tells the tale of a dysfunctional relationship in strange metaphor, while referring to the two people only as "Gal" and "Lad".
{{quote|Lad looks at other gals.
Gal thinks [[Drowning My Sorrows|Jim Beam]] is handsomer than Lad.
He isn't bad. }}
** Or in "No One Knows My Plan:"
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== [[Newspaper Comics|Funny Picture Things In The Paper]] ==
* Gary Larson's ''[[The Far Side]]'': Some mobsters are interrogating a little man tied up in a chair. "Well," says their leader, "we've tried every device and you still won't talk - every device, that is, except for the one we simply call 'Mr. Thingy.' " The hoodlum then holds up a weird contraption that looks like a cross between a bomb and a Swiss army knife.
* There's a ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip in which Lucy carries around a large sign saying "Help stamp out things." After being asked what kind of things, she amended her sign to {{Spoiler|"Help stamp out things that need stamping out."}}
== [[Professional Wrestling|People That Fake-Fight On TV On A Padded Stage Thing]] ==
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{{quote|"Come boy, come sir boy, come follow me sir boy!"}}
** And who could forget Shakespeare's frequently-used bit of Buffy Speak, [[Shaped Like Itself]]?
== [[Video Games|Those Things People Play In Dark Basements While Drinking Mountain Dew And Stuff]] ==
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** Grunt, being essentially a krogan teenager, often speaks like this, while trying to either puzzle through his tank-imprints or simply talking outside of combat. On Korlus, the squad will also encounter another tank-bred krogan who is even less experienced and articulate than Grunt, who speaks in Buffy-Speak.
{{quote|'''Grunt''': We should get behind... stuff. }}
* In ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'', Pey'j, when he's being attacked by a crochax:
{{quote|Get off me! Stupid ... whatever you are!}}
{{quote|As for the piston, did what I could. Just put the thingamajig back in the whatchamacallit.}}
* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'''s "Aperture Science Thing That We Don't Know What It Does"
* ''[[Portal 2]]'' has some as well. Wheatley's "all right, fatty? Adopted… fatty! Fatty fatty no parents?" and shortly later "What’s wrong with being adopted? Um, well, uh… Lack of parents?".
** "[[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]] versus Moriarty, Aristole vs '''MASHY SPIKE PLATE!'''"
*
** When Mimiron activates the [[Shout-Out|V-07-TR-0N]] he shouts "Bask in its glorious... um, glory!"
** The wolvar race does this enough to be verging on the point of a [[Verbal Tic]].
** The Gnomish Army Knife is being update in ''Mists of Pandaria'' to include a "Whirly Thing".
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Eddie]] from ''[[Emergency Exit]]'' has a particularly amusing (especially if you haven't read the story) example [http://eecomics.net/?strip_id=289 here.]
** [[Deadpan Snarker|Saya]] also uses this trope on [http://eecomics.net/?strip_id=1057 this] page while referring to the previous example.
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213202713/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/74 this strip] of ''[[Loserz]]'': "You'll be defeated like... like... like... like some easily defeated '''thing'''!"
* ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' does this all the time, especially Shelley.
** Example:
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== [[Web Original|Original Things On The Web]] ==
* ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-
** Dr. Horrible:
{{quote|"Moist! My evil...moisture...buddy!"
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* Happens in a couple of ''[[Two Best Friends Play]]'' videos; [[Assassin's Creed|"Sneaky-stab mode"]] and [[Portal 2|"You're science-ing right now!"]]
* The ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]''-inspired ''Unreal Revolution'' [[Game Mod|modification]] for the first ''[[Deus Ex]]'' (re-read the sentence if you need, we swear it makes sense) makes large use of this trope. "Use this to turn off the sparky hurt light", indeed.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110821013209/http://www.agonybooth.com/video_shows/Mr_Mendos_Hack_Attack/Never_Say_Never_Again.aspx This episode of] [[The Agony Booth|Mr. Mendo's Hack Attack]]: "But really, [[Johnny English|that]] was a good movie, and [[Never Say Never Again|this film]] and a good one are as dissimilar as two completely dissimilar things...in a bag."
* The name of the website http://www.sciencystuff.com/
* [[Stuff You Like|Stuff You Like's]] Sursum Ursa does this in her Moriarty episode:
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* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' does this a lot:
{{quote|'''Jake:''' Watch this everybody! A cooler! With..stuff for the thing!}}
{{quote|'''Finn:''' Let's just give him some purple-whatevers.
'''Jakes:''' ...You mean the ''grapes?''
'''Finn:''' ...Yeah, whatever. }}
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'',
** In one episode
** Also:
{{quote|'''Homer:''' Marge, where's that... metal dealy... you use to... dig... food...?
'''Marge:''' You mean a spoon?
'''Homer:''' Yeah, yeah! }}
{{quote|'''Homer:''' Oh Lisa, you and your stories! Bart is a vampire! Beer kills brain cells! Now let's go back to that...building...thingy...where our beds and TV...is."}}
{{quote|'''Nelson:''' Way to breathe, no-breath.}}
{{quote|'''Lionel Hutz''': I move for a bad court-thingy.
'''Judge Snyder''': You mean a mistrial?
'''Hutz''': Yeah! That's why you're the judge, and I'm the...law-talking-guy. }}
{{quote|"I especially love the Build Your Vocabulary section! That thing is really, really, really... good."}}
{{quote|"So many things, and so many things of each thing!"}}
{{quote|'''Homer:''' I want you to pull the thing, next to the other thing."}}
{{quote|Homer: That putter is to you what a bat is to a baseball player, what a violin is...to the--the guy that--the violin guy!}}
{{quote|'''Yokel Girl''': Hey, ain't you one of them funny, big-nosed showbiz people?
'''Krusty''': Oh, you mean a ''clown''?
'''Yokel Girl''': No, a J-
'''Krusty''': ''(quickly and nervously)'' -oker! Yeah! And I'm not a [[Ambiguously Jewish|practicing joker]], so I'm not offended! Heh, heh, heh! }}
* In an episode of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', Rocko gets angry at his broken old vacuum cleaner: "You're useless and pathetic, like a useless and pathetic thing!"
* ''[[Futurama]]''
** But Bender need brain! For smart-making!
{{quote|'''Leela''': Oh no! He's siphoning our energy and becoming stronger!
'''Fry''': Like a balloon and... something bad happens! }}
{{quote|'''Fry''': Hey, wait! I'm having one of those things! You know, a headache with pictures.
'''Leela''': An idea?
'''Fry''': ''(gesturing madly)'' Mmm! Mm!
'''Fry''': Hey! It's that guy you are! }}
:* Fry's reaction to meeting [[Hot Amazon|the Amazonians]] of Planet Amazonia: "I'm scaroused."
* ''[[Invader Zim]]''. As in, every single character. This includes Zim ("I might as well make your entire brain... nn-not smart no more."), The Almighty Tallest ("Our big... space ship... gang!"), and Dib ("Score ''nothing'' for the Zim... thingy... race."), to name a few.
** "I now leave you to your......Moosey fate."
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{{quote|'''Rainbow Dash''': *panicking* Forever is way too long to be trapped in Ghastly Gorge, I mean, it's like... [[Department of Redundancy Department|FOREVER]]!}}
* Recently done in ''[[Wild Grinders]]'' in which Chip Fligginton (cheesy jingle: CHIP FLIGGINGTON!) describes how Lil' Rob did his trick.
* This gem from the opening scene in ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]'':
{{quote|'''Linus:''' Lucy was right, of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Brownest!}}
== Other Stuff ==
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* Somewhere between this trope and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: after something falls off his aircraft in flight, a pilot must fill out a TFOA (Things Falling Off Aircraft).
* This [[Lyttle Lytton Contest]] winner: "The general, one might have said, had a sly, sneering-smile expression upon his face."
* [[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027034702/http://notalwaysright.com/de-ting-de-ting/308 Problem: Thing is blue and blue on the thing.]
* [[Magic: The Gathering]]: [http://magiccards.info/5dn/en/70.html Krark-Clan Engineers.] ''"Well, I jammed the whatsit into the whackdoodle, but I think I broke the thingamajigger."''
* A parody of ''Time'' magazine described something-or-other as "as heavy as two 150-pound bowling balls".
* [http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-majority-of-americans-just-gotta-you-know-g,19852/ This] article in ''[[The Onion]]''.
* The following is an exact quote from [[The Other Wiki]] : [[wikipedia:List of legendary creatures by type#Creatures associated with animals|Vulkodlak(Slavic)]] - undead vampire horse wolf thing
== [[Real Life|Those Things That Aren't Made Up But Are Actually Real]] ==
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*** Speaking of speaking around a word you don't know, the word for this (in English) is "circumlocution". Useful stuff.
* In Chile, the word 'wea' and its derivates can mean absolutely anything and anyone. It can get very confusing for a non-chilean to understand which thing is the 'wea' we are referring to.
** It's actually very much a [[
* The same in Colombia with the word 'vaina', except it's never used on people, hence being translated as a very localized version of "thing", and being one of the few words used by everyone regardless of region/accent.
* In the immortal words of the Danish Prime minister Lars Løkke "Those who earn more, and pay a lot, and now pay a little less. Well they pay more-less, than those who earn a little less, and pay less, thus paying less-less"
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* Primates learning human sign language typically string together monosyllabic English words in order to express relatively complex concepts. Koko the gorilla, for one, famously referred to a mask (in ASL) as an "eye hat."
* Much of the Chinese language is constructed this way. Since everything is in abstract characters, it's only considered natural to keep tacking simple words onto a chain until you've got a fully developed concept. Examples: The Chinese word for "love" is ''ai''. ''Aiguo'' means "patriotic" ("love country"). ''Airen'' gives us "husband" or "wife" ("love person"); and ''aizibing'' translates to "AIDS" ("love disease"), though the last one can also be viewed as transcription.
* Japanese is also big on Buffy Speak from a grammatical standpoint. All [[wikipedia:Japanese grammar#Demonstratives/|demonstratives]], and also mono and koto often only serve to exacerbate confusion in a world that is elusive as it is. [http://ja.uncyclopedia.info/wiki/読みにくい文章/意味の分かりにくい文章/ Exhibit A (at 13.).]{{Dead link}} This is [[No Pun Intended|compounded]] by throngs of chinese loanwords (see above) that a speaker has to live with.
* A [[Con Lang]] called Toki Pona has this as its basic premise. It has only hundred-something roots, and words are formed from them exactly this way.
** And its [[Evil Twin]], [[Russian Language|Russian mat]] that has only six or seven roots that are all [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster F Bombs]]
*** In mat, you can compose complex, perfectly legitimate and meaningful (in context) sentences [[Cluster F-Bomb|completely out of swear words]], sometimes even working with ''one'' word base per sentence. This phenomenon is depicted in Russian humour; for example, in jokes about construction workers or engineers forced by the new superior (or a foreign consultant) to stick to decent language. This results in their inability to communicate and complete their tasks.
* A toaster manufactured by Breville has an "A Bit More" button.
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[[Category:Tropes of Legend]]
[[Category:Pothole Magnet]]
[[Category:Language Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Buffy-Speak]]
[[Category:Self-Demonstrating Article]]
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