{"id":1065,"date":"2003-08-02T14:52:52","date_gmt":"2003-08-02T22:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2006-01-08T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T21:26:27","slug":"buffese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"Sunnydalish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,3604,1009488,00.html\">Can you speak Buffy?<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Now the witty diction of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been accorded the academic respect that it deserves in Professor Michael Adams&#8217;s <i>Slayer Slang<\/i> (Oxford University Press). Under headings such as &lsquo;The Attraction of Prefixes&rsquo; and &lsquo;Folk Etymologies&rsquo;, Adams, a historian of lexicography, admiringly picks apart the language of the show. He also provides a densely annotated glossary of its peculiar words and phrases. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>Grauniad<\/i>; passed along on <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.mutualaid.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/anarchysf\">Anarchysf<\/a> by Mal Function)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you speak Buffy? Now the witty diction of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been accorded the academic respect that it deserves in Professor Michael Adams&#8217;s Slayer Slang (Oxford University Press). Under headings such as &lsquo;The Attraction of Prefixes&rsquo; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1065\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}