History PlayingWith / BuffySpeak

** Bob doesn't knows the name of the gadget he's describing.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob remembers the word midway through, but then states that the first term is more appropriate, even tries to quote the dictionary, but when he tries to refer it for another time, he forgets that word and tries to come up with another word that he did not use.

* '''Conversed''': "God, I hate this dumb trope where they speak in such bizarre syntax. Who does he think he is, a Creator/JossWhedon character?!"

* '''Played For Horror''': Bob is a PsychopathicManchild and this way of talking is part of his lack of mental stability.

** Bob can't even say even say "good morning" right. Instead he says something like "nice glowy-day-morning-thingy".

* '''Conversed''': "You ever have that problem where you know a word, but then your mind pulls a blank, so it comes out as the closest phrase you can think of?"

* '''Enforced''': The authors get encouraged to write their dialogue this way to emphasise the characters' FishOutOfWater status, and/or [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic increase the realism of the work's dialogue.]]

* '''Subverted''': Bob remembers the word midway through, calling it a "glowy ghost...uh, hologram projector!"

* '''Defied''': Alice looks up the definition of a word on her phone so she can use the correct word instead of awkwardly describing it.

** This way of speaking is a full-blown {{Newspeak}} FutureSlang lexicon,

* '''Enforced''': ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' is one of the highest acclaimed films of all time. All of the heroes talked like this at one point of the film or another, usually [[CasualDangerDialogue in the middle of an action scene]], so the writers of ''Alice and Bob'' decided that it was okay to replicate.

* '''Implied''': ??

* '''Parodied''': ??

* '''Zig Zagged''': ??

** Bob can't even say even say "good morning" right. Instead she says something like "nice glowy-day-morning-thingy".

* '''Conversed''': "You ever have that problem where you know a word, but the your mind pulls a blank, so it comes out as the closest phrase you can think of?"

* '''Conversed''': ??

'''Basic Trope''': A strange syntax utilizing vaguely descriptive terms for words and overall apes stereotypical ValleyGirl lexicon.

** "Dumbass Alice" is a DumbBlonde who can't even say even say "good morning" right. Instead she says something like "nice glowy-day-morning-thingy".
** Whedon-speak is a full-blown {{Newspeak}} FutureSlang lexicon. The whole cast abuses adding "-y" to the end of words like other people [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma abuse commas and apostrophes]], the word "like" [[LikeIsLikeAComma is used like a comma]], and in perspective it makes the whole lot of them sound like [[Film/AClockworkOrange Alex DeLarge's]] valley-girl cousins.
* '''Downplayed''':
** The use of valley-girl speak is only used in moments when Bob's brain is very visibly not working at full steam.
** The typical mangled lexicon of this trope is utilized in a SophisticatedAsHell fashion.

** Alice doesn't knows the specific lexicon that she's trying to convey.

** They are both dumb.
** Alice and Bob have dyslexia, aphasia or some other disability.
** The terms they are using, like leet-speak, are the result of MemeticMutation and thus they make as much sense to them as it is for a ten-year-old in the Twenties to say "jeepers!"

* '''Subverted''': Alice is verbose, it just takes her a few more seconds to figure out the necessary words.
* '''Double Subverted''': But she still very notably phrases "thing" as "thingy".
* '''Parodied''': The scenes in which Alice talks are an outright {{Homage}} the jive-talkers of ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', ironically juxtaposing highly verbose and meaningful subtitled meaning against her barely-comprehensible Creator/JossWhedon-esque valley-girl vocabulary.

* '''Averted''': Alice speaks normally.
* '''Lampshaded''': "I'm sorry -- what the ''hell'' did you just say?"
** "I know what I want to say, but it's always at the tip of my tongue! So frustrating..."

* '''Defied''': "Here's a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a language course. Don't even think of talking to me until you've read them all."

* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': We don't hear Alice talk, but Charlie's immediate reaction is to pull out ''[[TropesForDummies Whedon-speak For Dummies]]''.

** Alice is deemed stupid because of her lexicon, leading to such things as bullying.

* '''Played For Drama''': This way of talking is [[CerebusRetcon revealed to be the result]] of aphasia that Bob developed after barely surviving being shot in the head in a UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} copy-cat and it [[BerserkButton seriously makes him angry]] when people bring it up.
* '''Played For Horror''': Bob is a PsychopathicManchild and this way of talking is part of his lack of mental stability.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The character who talks like this is a complete idiot that gets PutOnABusToHell, making it a major TakeThat at Whedon-speak.

* '''Enforced''': ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' is one of the greatest films of all time. All of the heroes talked like this at one point of the film or another, usually [[CasualDangerDialogue in the middle of an action scene]]. So the writers of ''Alice and Bob'' decided that it was okay to replicate.

* '''Lampshaded''':
** "I'm sorry -- what the ''hell'' did you just said?"
** "...I swear, one of these days I will find Joss Whedon, shoot him, and use his cadaver as kindling to burn all of California."
* '''Invoked''': Alice uses this kind of speaking for ObfuscatingStupidity.
* '''Exploited''': Evulz exploits the additional three seconds it takes for Alice to make herself understood [[TalkingIsAFreeAction to perform]] [[AvertedTrope an ambush]].
* '''Defied''':
** "Here's a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a language course. Don't even think of talking to me until you've read them all."

* '''Conversed''': "Ever since ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', everybody thinks it's oh-soooooo-''cute'' to have even the supergenius with the dozen [=PHDs=] talk like a '''[[AtomicFBomb FUCKING]]''' stoner, don't they?"

* '''Reconstructed''':
** Alice demonstrates that she can talk fine, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness she just prefers to save it for truly serious moments]].

* '''Enforced''': ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' is one of the greatest films of all time. All of the heroes talked like this at one point of the film or another, usually [[CasualDangerConversation in the middle of an action scene]]. So the writers of ''Alice and Bob'' decided that it was okay to replicate.

* '''Conversed''': "Ever since ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', everybody thinks it's oh-soooooo-''cute'' to have even the supergenius with the dozen [=PHDs=] talk like a '''[[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]]''' stoner, don't they?"

** Whedon-speak is a full-blown {{Newspeak}} FutureSlang lexicon. The whole cast abuses adding "-y" to the end of words like other people [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma abuse commas and apostrophes]], the word "like" [[LikeIsLikeAComma is]] used like a comma, and in perspective it makes the whole lot of them sound like [[Film/AClockworkOrange Alex DeLarge's]] valley-girl cousins.