Vocabulary - Sunnydale Style!

So, you think you're all that because you can quote Buffy and her friends? Try adapting your everyday speech so that you'd fit right in at Sunnydale U! Below are some good rules of thumb to follow when trying to "Buffyize" your vocabulary.

+age: Almost any word can have the ending "age" tacked onto the end of it.
     EXAMPLES: "Thus freeing us up for world savage."
                          "Willow kissage!"
                          "Any sparkage?"

Nouning: Turning words from adjatives into nouns.
     EXAMPLES: "Love makes you do the wacky!"
                          "Stop with the cryptic, you're scaring me!"
                           "It gives me a happy!"

People: Use people (or fictional characters) who have specific personality traits to point out these traits in others.
     EXAMPLES: "I can't believe you, of all people, are trying to Scully me!"
                          "My eyes are hazel, Helen Keller."
                          "Calm may work for Locutus of Borg here, but I'm
                               freaked out and I intend to stay that way!"

Wake up and smell the ...: Most effective when referring to dating.
     EXAMPLES: "You can't spend the rest of your life waiting for Xander
                               to wake up and smell the hottie!"
                          "Wake up and smell the seduction!"

... much?: Use this to insult/point out problems people are having.
     EXAMPLES: "Okay, overidentify much?"
                          "Pathetic much?"

Changing endings: Changing the endings on a word has interesting results.
     EXAMPLES: Giles: Punishing yourself like this is pointless. Buffy:
                                it's entirely pointy!
                          "This could be mathier!"

Breaking words: Similar results can be had by breaking words into pieces.
     EXAMPLES: Giles: I'm quite flummoxed. Buffy: What's the flum?
                         Buffy: How do you get to be renowned? I mean like,
                                do you have to be nowned first? Willow: Yes, first
                                there is the painful nowning process.

    NOTE: This is one of the few aspects of Slayer-speak wich Giles uses.
     EXAMPLES: "Just because the paranormal is more normal and less
                               para of late, that is no excuse for tardiness or
                               letting down your gaurd!"
                          "Buffy, I believe the subtext here is rapidly be coming
                               uh ... text."

Wig: Use this word instead of freaking, crazy, or scared. Conjucations
     include wiggins, wiggy, and maxi-wig.

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