Buffyspeak

As one would say in Buffyspeak, soak in the irony for a moment.

During "The Writing for Teens and Television" symposium, in an exchange about adolescent language, Whedon readily admits, as he has done in other interviews, that Buffyspeak was his creation and not intended to be mimetic.

The linguistic distinctiveness of Buffyspeak is not reproduced in the Italian version, where teenagers' speech style is, at most, characterized by an informality which does not have any particular connotation as 'youth language.'

Jargon applies to things which would not be able to be described otherwise, except through Buffyspeak; in contrast, double-speak attempts to make things look better than they really are, and to hide the truth.