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This one was an impulse borrow. It's a lexicon of slang connected to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I somehow stumbled across it on the Library website and thought it might make for some entertaining waiting room material. Kind of like one of Leo Rosten's books. What I discovered is that Professor Adams is a bit more academic that Mr. Rosten. Before you get to the glossary of creative Buffy-isms, there are pages of serious study of language, how new words enter a language, and how verbiage from Buffy has been following the process. I found it--the whole book, actually--somewhat interesting, but not as entertaining as I hoped. The bits of "Slayer slang" that one encounters in the show add some spice to the episodes, but this book showed me that its appeal isn't intrinsic, but stems from the characters and stories from the show.  

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// posted by John @ 10:40 AM