‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Is Still Changing TV 20 Years After Its Premiere

With Buffy, Joss Whedon created a signature voice that would be emulated repeatedly.

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Let’s be real here: Before Buffy hit our TV screens, there was no such banter like the type it made famous. The creation of “Buffyspeak,” or, as Kyle Kallgren describes it, “a jumbling of nouniness and adjectiviage into languagey-bits that sound like your brain forgot words before spontaneously re-remembering them,” is still very much a thing today.

 

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