0.42 Welcome to the HelenMouth: Linguistics in Buffy with Helen Zaltzman

Buffering the Vampire Slayer

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Dear friend of the pod Helen Zalztman (The Allusionist, Answer Me This!) joins us today for a deep dive into linguistics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Why does Giles' leatherbound book use a "Y" in Vampyre? Why does television rely so heavily on Latin to convey magic spells? Where does the word "coven" originate? Did Buffy coin the term "wiggins"?! In the words of one Jenny Owen Youngs, wow wow wow Wow WOW.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody!
0:05.0	Oh hi! Another intro, another show!
0:08.8	Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do!
0:12.3	We have a special episode this week, don't we?
0:15.2	We have arguably the most special episode.
0:18.4	It's pretty exciting.
0:19.9	We have Helen Zoltzman,
0:21.2	friend of Jenny's, but also mine.
0:23.6	We argue about it in the episode.
0:25.8	The jewel of my heart!
0:27.4	Yes!
0:28.9	Hey, what am I?
0:31.7	Something else?
0:32.6	Okay, I'll let you think on that for a minute.
0:36.0	Before we get into today's episode with Helen,
0:38.7	where we talk about linguistics and Buffy the Vampires,
0:41.9	Lair Plus the Mother Fun Shit,
0:44.3	just a couple of quick announcements.
0:46.4	First of all, Philadelphia, we are coming for you,
0:49.6	and you kind of know that already,
0:51.1	because there are maybe 50 tickets left to our show in June.
0:56.0	June 11th, we're coming to World Cafe Live.
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