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Re: The language of Joss Whedon (was Re: the Language of Firefly)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 20:21
On Sep 7, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Paul Bennett wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:36:55 -0400, Kit La Touche > <kit@...> wrote: >> personally, i love what this show does with language - it's a mix of >> reasonable changes, fun changes, and things that are current among at >> least my group of nerdy friends (though i don't know which way the >> influence has gone in that case. we use "shiny" *a lot*.) >> and that example of kaylee... it's mostly her way of speaking, i'd >> say. >> can't wait for the movie! /silly fan.
> Joss (and his team) loves to make minor tweaks to language and > dialect. Wordplay runs rampant throughout his other shows, Buffy The > Vampire Slayer, and Angel. Lots of verbing of nouns, and nouning of > adjectives, under and over specification, punning, confusion of meta > levels, and so forth. There's probably at least one website with a > whole collection of the wordplay of Mutant Enemy. If not, I might have > to compile one, one day. It'll be a lot of work. > Paul
grrr. arrrg. -Stephen (Steg)