Reminds me of my brother trying to explain me how to use a drill... "put that thing in that other thingy, then grab the thingy with a rod on it..." Oh, and he calls the drill "that thing for making holes in other things".

This troper came into her house and heard Green Day, and told everyone that 'it's the people, you know, that... that do the music, those people, you know?

"A thing that has two things that are very large on the sides, and when those things move it makes a shitload of noise" a plane. "An object with an impressive size" cue nervous laughter "with places you can sit on and a bathroom and all and it's very expensive" a plane, again. The funny thing is the people who made those descriptions were adults, not children.

Similar to above, a friend was playing password, and his word came up "Candy bar" The first thing that came to mind? "It's long, and it's sweet, [he pumps his fist in the direction of his mouth] and you eat it like this..." His partner (His father, by the way) was too busy trying not to burst out laughing to answer.

Self-referential example from this troper's former roommate: "Yeah, I'm missing some language...things...."

This troper's HeterosexualLifePartner is notorious in our {{Nakama}} for this. The most noteworthy example is "stand-y uppy thing for food" = table.

This troper speaks a freakish, demihuman sort of BuffySpeak sometimes. Ask me to vocalize my impressions on 32-year-olds voicing teenagers in cartoons. No, go on, try it. Makes not sometimes all kinds of sense.

This troper's mother will often use BuffySpeak. I used to give her crap about it because I was such a little GrammarNazi.

This troper's mother too, when she isn't being a GrammarNazi herself. (She's an English teacher.)

This troper apparently was good at expressing herself as a kid, but now that ablilty seem to have disappeared completely. As the mind wanders from the subject and, or races ahead without stopping to formulate words, she sometimes forgets what she's about to say completely or improvises by using gestures, self- invented or difficult words and.. sucking and clicking sounds.

From memory this troper has referred to a shoe as a foot glove, speakers as sound boxes and pens as line makers.

To be fair, speakers ''does'' mean sound boxes in Portuguese and Spanish. Or something.

And the German for "glove" means hand-shoe. Also a colloquial German term for speakers is indeed "Boxen" which translates (surprisingly :P) to "boxes".

This troper can barely speak after seven years of ''Buffy,'' three of ''Firefly, and'' comics. It gets ugly when the old-west talk combines with Buffy-style extra articles. Example: "Don't get so tetchy, it is not of the good."

Wha? Huh? What this don't is I even?

This troper has a tendency to describe objects as "blobs" and other not-very descriptive things, especially if he is exited, angry or just feeling tense. Usually the phrase comes out something like this: "Why is that..that..BLOB there! Hey! You! Move your blob out of the way." (in this case the troper was playing a very large Warhammer 40k game and the blob in question was a tank my teammate had left right in front of my troops, completely blocking their line of sight).

This troper's (teenaged) sister doesn't use words so much as she uses hand motions and sound effects to explain what happened.

Have her explain butter churning, and post it online. 0.0

This troper suffers from a similar problem (although in German), of not always being able to come up with the correct... whatsits... for things on cue, leading on one occasion to her calling a radio "the thingy with knobs on that music comes out of". Um, yeah.

This Troper has a tendency to seriously over use the word 'thing'. As in "That blue thing's over there, next to the other thing. No, the ''other'' thing."

a Virtue}} This troper tends to do it in class when asking questions.

This troper finds it helpful to make up a real-sounding word when a real word is forgotten. People tend to assume they misheard you, and ask you to repeat yourself. This buys precious seconds for remembering the real word.

This troper happens to be in an AP English class. So imagine her disbelief when one of the other students in said class asked "Mr. [teacher's name], why did we have to read this book? I mean, what booky things could we ''possibly'' learn from it?!" Yeah, she has no idea how that particular classmate has survived the past year.

This troper suspects the above troper's classmate is a practitioner of ObfuscatingStupidity.

This troper used to sometimes forget a word in a sentence. So he would describe the thing he was trying to talk about until either someone tells him the word or he remembers the word. He also has a problem with jumping from a topic to topic. That is, jumping from a talk about how to cut a carrot right to how to avoid getting shot to something he saw on T.V. last week. All in the course of three sentences. But that may be another problem.

This troper, as an education major, has to spend a considerable amount of time observing high school classes. Oy.

This Troper once, while asking for a spoon, forgot what it was called and asked, "Have you got a stirry thing?"

Trust me, it's okay. "Spoon" is a word that's particularly vulnerable to this.

This troper tends to do this a fair bit, as articulation of points is not his strong point. #QUOTE#"And now you know, and you can store that in the bank of...knowingness..."

The word "ghosty" has come up a lot in the past week while my English class discussed Samuel Taylor Coleridge's horror poem about LesYay MindRape ''Christabel''.

This troper has a very... unique manner of speaking. It's sort of a cross between Buffy Speak and SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, which means big words and horrible sentence structure. For example... just yesterday, I was talking about my sister's sleep patterns. Instead of saying "She usually stays up late", which would have made sense, I said "She usually stays... up, with massive amounts... of lateness." This happens far more often than I'd like to admit.

This troper would like to ask the above troper to marry him. I care not for gender, but I have been known to do the same exact thing, and would actually suspect that I had written the above example, if not for lacking a sister to speak of.

This troper is much like the above two, and would gladly marry both of them regardless of gender just to have someone else around who talks like she does; she often scares or confuses people she has just met with her speaking patterns; they are a combination of a slight tendency towards SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, an addiction to all things Whedon, an adoration of the Georgia Nicolson books by Louise Rennison, an addiction to TV Tropes and a tendency towards using graphic and literal figures of speech. This results in sentences like "So I was watching the whatsit, the TV, the other day, and I got majorly squicked out by this slayage scene where they incapacitated the demon and cut out its eyeballs. Now, I've often threatened people I don't like with removing their eyeballs and making soup out of them, but... hey, where are you going?" People who are used to it, like friends and family, find it amusing and somewhat endearing; people who aren't think I'm an exceptionally verbose serial killer with a sick, twisted sense of humor. (Which, to be fair, is all entirely true except for the serial killer bit.) Oh well...

So you're what, like, Mr. Croup or something?

I third the marriage proposals, this troper speaks with Buffyspeakishness, SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, and gratuitous German, French, and Russian. New-ish people have a hard time understanding me, especially when you add the fact that I speak extremely quickly and spell like a British person. The fact that I also randomly swap between pronunciations of words between RP and GA makes people think I'm foreign somehow. I'm just sorta incomprehensible-ish.

Rider}} This Troper believes that having a common interest in languageishness is far more important than such base things as gender.

This tropette thinks any of the above tropers should get married, as long as I can be maid-of-honor. I, for whatever reason, can never remember "kitchen," calling it "the eat room," "food place," "the room with yellow walls," and "the one with the stove inside of it."

This troper often has the same trouble of SophisticatedAsHell and BuffySpeak. Which, while effective around adults and sci-fi conventions, flies into a social brick wall in his honors level classes...

This troper was always very carefully taught to say "Nine one one" instead of "Nine eleven" (which some people apparently do), because nine times out of ten the panicked instructee will inspect the telephone and cry out, "There's no eleven!"

And now there's another reason not to call it nine eleven.

This troper is always confused by the American date system - it's the 11th day of the 9th month. Surely it should be written 11/9?

I guess it comes from saying "September eleventh" or "April first" out loud. If you say the... year-dividing-piecey... first, why not write it first, even if it is numbers?

Well that's weird in the first place. What's wrong with "the eleventh of September"? I know for sure there's only one "September" in the year, and also there have been lots and lots of more than eleven years already gone by... So "September the eleventh" doesn't make much sense... Or maybe it's a king, "September XI."?

Sep-Tem-Ber Ele-ven-th. 6 syllables. the ele-ven-th of Sep-Tem-Ber. 8 syllables. Ours is shorter. We win. It's a time saving measure, like a ye olde Buffy Speak.

This troper sometimes falls into this when discussing science, which is every bit as hilarious as it sounds. She once referred to the service module of the Orion spacecraft as "the solar panel-y bit".

This troper has a friend who commonly falls into this, despite being a fairly intelligent guy. His stupidest moment came when he described a car alarm as "[Something] to deter stealy-dudes", i.e. thieves. What really gets this troper laughing is that his friend remembered the word 'deter', and yet somehow forgot the more common word "thieves".

Oh, and while I'm at it, yes, this troper falls into this.

Your friend just made me shoot tea through my nose. Thank god it wasn't hot =)

I've heard the word "stealers" come from the lips of a very smart person.

I just imagined the entire Pittsburg NFL team breaking into a car.

This troper once forgot the word "dustpan" for two solid months. Particularly irritating because his job at the time involved a lot of sweeping.

I called a dustpan a "scoopy dirt thingy" in front of my entire science class, after delivering an impromptu and well-received lecture on String Theory. I jest not. Maybe we're twins...?

This troper is very much guilty of this. (Oddly, only when sober. When drunk, she resorts to SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. Weird.)

This troper, despite having only seen one episode of BuffyTheVampireSlayer ever, is a reported master at BuffySpeak (according to his Buffy fan friends.) One of his more famous sayings is "I always try for analogies, but I can never get good ones....it's like....bad....uh...analogies....or...damn."

This troper knows a guy with MS, which can have the effect of screwing up your vocabulary. He has spent entire days saying "envelope" instead of "letter", or "horse" instead of "house" - the former was particularly problematic as he happens to work at the post office. More recently he's been able to catch these before they happen, which generally results in a burst of BuffySpeak while he tries to dredge up the ''right'' word. "You know, the... thing... we were just talking about... walls... roof..."

This troper recently used this, with "audio listening... thingies."

One of This Troper's Catch phrases is "Over there somewhere" and wriggling his hand. He also a great fan saying "-ness". 'Cuz it exudes awesomeness.

About 70% of the nouns, places, verbs and whatnot described by me are variations of "This, that, that thingy, stuff, etc." Worst thing's that I actually have a pretty wide vocabulary, but can't recall it quickly enough before I grow frustrated and go, "asdsdfw blah. That. whatever."

This troper also has a fairly impressive vocabulary, but since my brain regularly decides to completely forget even the most obvious things sometimes, I end up saying thing like "wheres the,um...clicky, channel-changing thing... yes! the remote! Where is the remote!?"

This troper was once well-known for mumbling, and then (when asked to repeat what he said) dismissing it as unimportant. After the tenth time he did that to his former roommate, she misheard 'Thank the gods for small mercies' and deliberately turned it into 'Thanks for shopping at Small Murphy's' to let him know just how silly he actually sounded.

This troper's friend once helpfully tried to describe what we later figured out was the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey as "the place, where they do the thing".

One of this troper's mathematics lecturers would like everyone to know that while the universe may not technically be a vector space, it is in fact "vector-space-y".

A big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.

Just today, while furniture shopping, this troper caught herself ruminating on her desire to find "a small table-y shaped object."

This troper is not a picky eater. When asked what kind of food he would like, often replies with "Foodular food"

This troper once cracked up his brother by forgetting a word, and after several moments of struggling, bursting out, "THE THING! THE THING ON WHEELS!" That phrase is now used between us for ''anything'' whose name has been temporarily forgotten, regardless of whether or not it ''actually has wheels''. (This tends to confuse other people in the room, but that's their problem.)

This troper was once swimming with her cousin. His goggles got filled with water, and as he surfaced, he exclaimed, "The thingy's full of thingy!" And the troper herself... For example, when I try to describe a car late at night: "You know the, um, thing... the thing you sit in, and it goes places, and it's got, um, wheels? Big thing? Yes, that. You know what it's called."

The undying example in this troper's family is "I put the thingy in the thingy in the thing" (from once attempting to communicate that I put the laundry in the laundry-basket in the laundry-room). Also, there was a period where I would resort to multiple adjectives with "-ish" attached in lieu of forgotten nouns.

This Troper is, for some odd reason, almost incapable of remembering names (including his own), dates, and times. This once resulted in a conversation that went something like this...

"Where do you want to go for dinner?" "Well me and..that smallish person, the one related to me..." "Your sister, (name removed to protect the guilty)?" "Yeah, that one! We were gonna go to the place up the street, with that Japanese food...you know the raw fish..." "Sushi? At (name removed to protect the guilty)?" "Exactly! We should be back by..that time when the glowing orb goes down..." "Sunset?" "That's it! Anyway, see ya!"

this troper has the same problem. She occasionally forgets common words like "bus", and can't remember names and dates at all (guess why I failed history... now guess why I don't use my friend's names that often...) and has occasionally forgotten her own name, much to the concern of people either calling for her attention at the time or asking for it to fill out a form.

Subverted by this troper -- when under stress or nervousness of any kind, I tend to use unnecessarily long words and a varied vocabulary. Because I find talking to anybody I'm not extremely close to very stressful, this has resulted in giving the (false) impression that I'm extremely intelligent at the beginning of a relationship, and slowly degenerating into "hehe, kitties are funny!" over time. I suspect friends find this disorienting, but not half as disorienting as when, after they become used to my relaxed, simplified methods of speech, we disagree on something and super-vocabulary suddenly comes back out to play for the length of the disagreement.

This troper uses the suffix -ness to change anything into a noun. Even if it makes perfect sense as a verb. She also goes "the-the-the" while circling her hands until either the human dictionary pipes up or she remembers the word. It doesn't help that she refuses to use words that will do but aren't the ''right'' word. This often ends in "thing, has wheels, with the-the-the explodingness!"

This troper had been taking a test, and was trying to remember a word...basically meant muscle decay...sounded kind of similar to "attrition"...Two days later, I was having trouble getting out of bed, and suddenly remembering the word I'd been looking for--"atrophy"--somehow helped.

This Troper falls into this occasionally in when speaking English, but uses it all the time when speaking German because I try to express complex ideas using a limited vocabulary and shaky understanding of word order. The end effect is that I usually confuse native German speakers while they try to figure out what I am saying.

This Troper runs into this frequently, one memorable occasion when her best friend spent several minutes spluttering and making hand gestures before saying she needed the 'pancake juice'. The missing word was 'syrup'.

My sister has an enormous vocabulary that is unfortunately very poorly indexed, resulting in not only BuffySpeak but related gaffes such as using a word that means almost the same thing as the one she wants, but not close enough to make sense in context, or using a word that sounds vaguely similar to the one she wants but means something totally different. It's gotten to the point where she just waits for me to correct her and then says "Yeah, that. The right one."

This troper works with a similarly afflicted woman. Gems from the last few weeks include one particular department at our company standing out as being more helpful than others, and therefore being the only one she gave any 'latitude' to, and also referring to her straightforwardness when making a potentially awkward request as her ability to be 'perpendicular'.

This Troper has ''exactly'' the same problem, in a way similar to the troper towards the end of the page, and usually just puts a cap on how ridiculous things get by adding "-ness" or "thing" to the end (including words that already ''end'' in "-ness"). And unfortunately, his recall gets worse when flustered. It's not uncommon for him to spend a couple of paragraphs explaining a theory of how the universe works, followed by "ow, when I stood up, I kicked the table-thing (leg) with the... walking thing (foot)... On the end of the thing you walk with (leg)... Where it attaches the walky-thing (foot) to your body attachy thing (body-attachy thing)?" or go through seven synonyms to describe a particular feeling or idea, giving up, and thinking of it twenty minutes (to a day and a half) later. He could not stop lauging when he first tried to explain string theory, and for once used BuffySpeak ''intentionally''.

This is actually closer to canon Buffy Speak, at least for the first season.

When this troper's ex-boyfriend once made a comment about how she had "pursued" him, she immediately retorted, "Hey, I think there was mutual pursuage!" "Pursuage" became a running joke for the rest of their relationship.

The above troper also had some filming going on at her house once for a school project. One of the guys in the project noted that the troper's basement contained a treadmill: "Is it okay if we move the running machine?"

Seems to this troper that attaching '-age' to the end of nouns is pretty common, and often leads people to think dinner is being discussed, rather than debating whether or not to get a cab. "What do you reckon, then - cabbage?"

This troper would love to have been around for that discussion.

Raekuul here, with one for the other tropers to laugh at. Playing Paper Mario: The Really old door thingy one with the crystalish star thingies... and I could not remember for the life of me the name of "Bubble Girl." For the record, I'm usually... not bad-like with these... name thingies...

This Troper seems to be degenerating into this over time, especially by adding the word "type" as a hyphenated suffix. Last night I was caught passing a "plate full of pineapple-type stuff" around the table only to be told "The word is ''fruit'', dear". Oy veh.

When describing a person she's never heard of in her life, she'll always say, "Oh yeah, you mean that, uh, that guy, yeah, uh, with the skin, and, uh, the toenails?"

He doesn't ''have'' to have skin nor toenails...

Perhaps due to growing up with all seven seasons of Buffy and a tendency for off-the-wall subject matter, this troper doesn't so much speak as string vaguely related words together, interjected with rambling, trails of thought that lead nowhere, and plenty of useless analogies. I also gesture wildly in the hopes of getting my point across, although this may not be that useful seeing as the gestures are rarely connected to the action I'm describing. It's a wonder anybody understands me at all. Curiously enough, this manner of speaking vanishes when I'm typing -- online, I tend more toward SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. Go fig.

This troper is ''exactly the same''... except I also have a strong Northern Irish accent and a tendency to mumble,turning me into a real-life unintelligible. I have to mentally rehearse and enunciate clearly whenever I speak to someone who doesn't know me. Having to repeat yourself three or four times is ''very'' frustrating.

OH MY GOSH YES. -twitch- Having to repeat oneself is so annoying.

This Troper discovered that reading all of VanHeist (deviantart)'s GoGo Bomango comics in one go causes her to Buffy Speak. "The GoGo is to causing teh suck English."

Not so much an example of Buffy Speak as an aversion that ended up involving it, this troper watched his friends talk about how our cat was attacking one friend's wireless mouse receiver, and Adam, ever the master of misspeaking, mishearing, mispronouncing, and Buffy Speak, referred to it as a "dongle" - the actual term for it. Felix, the other person in the conversation, stopped and acted as though Adam had said something idiotic again. "DONGLE?!" His response: "What would you rather I call it, a 'mouse-thingy'?"

This troper used his lack-for-finding-the-correct-wordness to his benefit. During a English class, we were assigned a reading (not a very good one I add. I'll just say, descriptiveness doesn't make ones story clear) and some questions to answer for homework. Note this troper is lazy is a understaement. So que the next class where we were correcting it. I used my common forgetfullness of a word as a time delay before I was completely skipped over for questions. Thank you abnormal character traits.

This might be a learned behavior. Conversations between this troper and her mother frequently devolve into "The-the-the-the-the-the THINGY! At the place!" or "I found the... the stupid, the damn-ass thing." Usually with lots of hand-flailing.

I do Buffy-Speak every day. In CHINESE. That makes it worse.

Me too.

This Troper's Buffy speak is so out of hand, that my friends think that english isn't actually my first language.

This troper remembers her mother once forgetting what milk was called. This manifested as "Could you please pass the --" followed by pouring and cow-milking gestures, and the word "moo".

Ugh. This troper fails at the english language in that regard. I have a ''massive'' vocabulary, not even joking here, we're talking maybe twice the size of the average person my age. I once forgot the word sewing machine, waved my hands fruitlessly for like 30 seconds, and came up with screwdriver. When I attempted to relay the story to my mother later that day, I forgot BOTH words and had to make do with scissors until I could remember. This happens to me a LOT. It's genetic, too. My mother once told me to get in the couch, because she'd forgotten the word for bed. A typical sentence in our family would be: "Did you set up the thing?" "What?" "The.... thing! In the place!" "Oh, you mean the- the dealy with the thingies on it? Starts with a T?" "That's the one!"

This troper once had a fail moment where he actually forgot the word for things. What did he use instead? "Choses", which is french for things. This troper is a native speaker of english.

Mother uses this ''way'' before Buffy. But on another side, she might be a vampire slayer at times. And this troper seems to be heading the same way, too, although she always used her hends as complimentary form of speaking (just like Italians, except that this ''Brazilian'' troper never had Italian... Huh... Ancestors? Sorry, not native speaker, sometimes this tends to happen.)

This troper is ridiculously fluent in Buffy-Speak to the point where she gets funny looks from her friends and has to tell people she just met that they might think she's a bit odd because Buffy/Firefly has decimated her vocablulary. She also uses noises and gestures as opposed to words and frequently snarls and growls if frustrated.

This troper (apparently like many on this page, who knew?) suffers from the dual curses of massively overspecialized vocabulary and incredibly poor on-the-spot language recall, leading to sentences like "you know, the-the-the-the semiotic implications of the, the thingy, uh -- they're actually really really fascinating, because, the, uh, fuckit." She's just waiting for the day when all human communication becomes text-based.

This troper often forgets the names of things. Recently he's just replaced them with something else, but other times he just goes- "Uhm. Er... You know... that... Thing... With all the words in it." "A dictionary?" "That's the one!"

He recalls a situation where he saw something move past him while in a forest. He shouted "Oh my god! It's a fast moving hiding shadowy thing!" the fast moving shadowy thing turned out to be an innocent frog that happened to cast a large shadow. "Oh wow. The thingy is green and small."

Add the sound "-age" or "-y" to the end of any word and you have this troper. "Wow. You have a lot of... Crap.. What's the word?" "Um.. Hair? "No.. It's... It's like smartage." "Intelligence?" "Yes! Darn. Now I feel very dumby."

Apparently this is similar to a real-life language impediment: Cluttering. It's sort of the opposite of stuttering, except instead of having ''literal'' trouble saying things, you don't know what to say or you forget what you want to say, and there's kind of... lots of stuff that is really unnecessary, so you don't--um... FRICK. This is why BuffySpeak sounds so natural, since it's similar to an actual occurrence. (Note: This was NOT planned to sound like BuffySpeak. This troper often finds herself trying to write something detailed and coherent, and ends up devolving into a vague, frustrated mess halfway through the first sentence.)

A family that loves wordplay plus a few years of obsession with [=BtVS=] had predictable results for this troper. The funniest part was not really realizing it for a while, and then rereading her diary, which was full of it. She's still vaguely amused at being able to copy bits straight out of her diary into a [=BtVS=] fanfic.

This troper combines BuffySpeak with SesquipedalianLoquaciousness with TechnoBabble and uses it as her default method of communication. You'll be surprised at how eloquent I can make my stuttering unable-to-recall-the-correct-phrase-ness. (When I'm speaking in Chinese, though, I just use BuffySpeak to the extreme, due to having forgotten most of my mothertongue after seven years in Australia. There is lots of language mashing.)

This troper, who refuses to say any more because of her fear of slipping into this very trope-ey-thingamajig. Dammit.

This Troper uses this trope alot when speaking aloud, but rarely descends into it online. He has adopted "explainy?" as a permanent expression of confusion, however.

This troper has a speech problem and tends to speak like this.

When very tired, I once referred to a particular big-box store as "the soul-sucking pit of...soul-suckiness!"

This troper, upon entering a room with a blaring TV, frequently tells her mother to "reduce the loud". And a guy she used to know once declared that he was "having an angry!"

This Troper's Dad found himself reduced to Buffy Speak in a translation attempt when he came across a term he couldn't translate, ending his sentence with a weak: "Um...something something?" We are totally not letting him live that down for a looooooooong time.

This Troper has an unfortunate habit of going into Buffy Speak whenever he talks or types for a certain length, It would seem that my thought process is not in line with my mouth or what you use to type on a keyboard, Fingers?

This troper tends to describe things as "x... and also x". For example, "this soup is hot and... hot."

This troper tends to switch abruptly from SpockSpeak and SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to this as her train of thought crashes into the...er...wall...of derailed thought. Or something. Combined with mumbling, speaking really quickly, trailing off a lot, frequent talking with hands, and a natural tendency towards vagueness, and you frequently get conversations such as this: #QUOTE# "Hey, sis? Would you be so kind as to pass that over posthaste? That. That thingermajigger. It's the...." #QUOTE# "What? It's the what?" #QUOTE# -irritated sound- "Hnnn, the THING. Blueish." -waves hands in circular motion- "That..."

Due to my MotorMouth, you'll often hear BuffySpeak. A lot of it. #QUOTE# "Mom, I need the thingy." #QUOTE# "The what?" #QUOTE# "The thingy! The one thing with bristles and stuff. The, erm, hair-untangling-thingy."

This Troper refers to mechanics as "car-fixing-stores" and salons and barbershops as "hair-cut-stores." Other than that, my affliction with BuffySpeak isn't to harsh, as I usually revert to wild hand gestures and hopeful facial expressions where most people would use redundancy. We're all incoherent in our own special ways.

I do this. Often.

This troper (and his mother) have a habit of describing things based on onomatopoetic devices. If something makes a sound, usually, it's used to describe it. For example: the "nyeh nyeh thing that skizdaddies stuff." Problem is, this troper lives in an environment where everything sounds like that.

Everybody in this troper's extended family seems to lose the ability to articulate at around 25 or so. Thanksgiving dinner can be very confusing - we end up asking for things like "the potato stuff" and "the green thingies" and "that big thing in the middle with the wings and the bread-y stuff coming out of it".

This troper's own girlfriend talks like this on many occasions, and is always cute when she does it...personal proof to him, at least, that it has already legitimately entered, at least on some level, into the public lexicon.

This troper suffers from dysnomia, which "is a difficulty or inability to retrieve the correct word from memory when it is needed." (From The Other Wiki) Quite often, when a word cannot be retrieved, people with dysnomia will start trying to describe the word they're meaning but can't recall. In the case of this troper and a few other dysnomics of her acquaintance, this coping mechanism often begins to sound suspiciously like this troper has been watching a Buffy marathon. Examples include saying "that green-bottle-drink stuff" when wanting a Sprite or asking if it's ok to "turn on the overhead spinny-thingy" when needed to turn on the ceiling fan.

This troper suffered from that temporarily after a severe overdose (3500 mg) of Doxepin.

This troper talks like this almost continuously, partly due to a continuous diet of all the genre examples listed above, but more significantly, was the subject of extended anti-intellectual resentment for the henious crime of having a good vocabulory. So he took to pretending he didn't.

Inverted with this particularly vocab-enhanced troper. If a word is forgotten, she'll often use ''bigger'' words to describe it. For example, while trying to remember what a bulldozer was classed as, she referred to it as a construction vehicle.

This troper and his family sometimes devolve into Buffy Speak, as sometimes we forget words before we even think of them. This normally manifests with me in saying stuff like "That thing with the...the..." I have my own phrase in Buffy Speak whenever I catch someone doing something that they hide from me. After they ask "What?" I say "You know! That thing with the stuff and the thing! And the elephant!" We also use words like "Thingymabobber".

this troper speaks almost entirely in made up words and sound effects

This troper remembers witnessing the following oddly adorable moment while working at a grocery store: A woman handed a man some fresh-bought flowers by the store exit. The man picked them up, sniffed them, and said "They smell like... good". He has his moments himself, most recently having to fix his bike chain on the way home, then complaining about his hands being "grosslike from the chaindeal". And when meaning to ask if something is free, has ended up asking "Is that take-able?"

This troper once worked in a fast food restaurant where the lobby worker referred to the trash cans as 'Thank You Boxes'. Now, for my wife and I (whom I met at said restaurant) trash cans are called Thank You Boxes.

This Troper occasionally forgets what she wants to say, right when she's saying it. When that happens, she refers to objects as "what's-it-calleds." Then, in an attempt to describe them, she falls right into this until she remembers the whats-it-called's name.

This troper slips into something resembling this when she's tired.

This troper has given up on making sense when speaking unplanned-ahead-of-time sentences and just decided to dance to the beat of her own music and screw the misunderstandings, due to her un-get-rid-able of tendency to degenerate into unintelligible mashed together words, explode-y sound effects, interpretive dance and calling things by whatever random word/brand name/whoever's name is written on them (nameless things are simply pointed to or looked at).

This troper was once called out on discussing literature in her classes this way. It tends to come out when spoken, rather than when written, but still, is pretty noticeable. (Though in addition to "thing like a thing" you get "quite, quite" something, or abuse of "rather", "muchly", "somewhat" and "v. v. (something) indeed".

This Troper has seen BuffySpeak used to circumlocute difficult subjects or generate euphemisms on the fly, as with the (Jewish) college friend who once referred to "the Palestinian-kicky parts of Israel."

This troper had an upbringing in which, while we spoke what we called English at home and my community, there were so many foreign words used as the exclusive form that someone without some idea about Yiddish, Hebrew and/or Ladino would be totally lost. As a result, the only exposure this troper had to pure English was through television... and no points for guessing which television show was his favorite. When this troper finally got to public high school, his first repeated experience outside his community, he was able to speak fluent normal English when speaking of technical or advanced subjects, but on the basics, where at home his primary experience was another language's word, he often found himself lacking. One particularly embarrassing example was in a Sex Ed class without other Jewish classmates or teacher in which he was forced to refer to a certain organ as the "male peeing connector thingy".

This Troper once asked her roommate if she could get "the whatsit from the thingy." Scary thing is, she brought me exactly what I wanted without asking for clarification.

This troper is a chemistry student - combine hours on end spent in a lab with BuffySpeak and you get some poor long-suffering technician trying to find a bottle of "clear, er, colourless liquidy stuff. Y'know, it smells like... that smelly stuff. Kinda like fish, but not. Does bad things to skin. You know what I mean, don't you? It's the stuff that reacts with red stuff to make yellow stuff. Begins with P... or was it T? E? Crap."

This troper has BuffySpeak as her native language.

A lot of this troper's friends use Buffy Speak. It's pretty funny when we talk about things and stuff and still understand each other while outsiders are flummoxed.

This troper's mother, while being an expert crossword solver, relies heavily on BuffySpeak when tired or distracted. Her personal best was asking for the "Command Sceptre". She meant the remote control.

This troper has exactly one line of Buffy Speak, which she uses whenever she can't remember the word for an item. "The thing with the stuff with the yeah."

This Troper was working at [=McDonald's=] and needed a device that made stickers with expiration dates printed on them. Couldn't remember what it was called. Said "Get me the thing that makes the things with the things on them!"

Quoth this troper: "He's on a planet in space!" Her roommate is a fan of things that do things, except for when she doesn't like things to do things.

This troper's pastor is absolutely infamous for making up new words to suit situationality.

Something I have to give it to myself for coining just now: "Insomniacish".

This troper's mother absolutely hates it when he uses Buffy Speak. I do use the word "thingy" fairly often, and she always gets really mad and tells me to be more specific.

This troper, despite being a nerdy person that sometimes read dictionaries to improve his language and verbal communication or whatever and winning some awards for good grammar, sometimes speaks like this when explaining complicated matters, like numbers that go down here and then they are up because you multiply them or something. It amuses this troper.

This troper reads a ton and has a pretty good vocabulary, but only on paper. When she tries to talk, she uses "thingy" "dohicky" or "thingamabob" or just makes up words when the right word won't come to mind. She also tends to use hand motions a lot to get a point across when the words don't.

This troper's mother often gives instructions along the lines of "You have to do the thing. With the thing."

Happens for this troper: "use the thing to do the thing, then you need to do the other thing."

This is the main form of Buffy Speak my dad has, except what makes it a little weirder is he'll occasionally replace "thing" with any number of nonsense words. If you think it's hard trying to figure out what "Do the thing with the thing" means, try "do the thing with the zippy-do". Another one he uses is "the como se llama" (literally "the what's it's name", and by the way there's no Spanish in my family's heritage whatsoever). At one point he used it while ordering wine at a restaurant and the waitress thought he was ordering some form of obscure Spanish wine.

This troper's sister is a chemistry student with an at times unbelievably bad memory. Combined with the complex terminology found in chemistry and...yeah. This troper also tends to trail off and let people finish his sentences for him, and tends to end forum posts like....yeah.

A while ago this troper was cooking and needed what turned out to be called a slicer. However, not knowing this, she asked her mum, "Should I use the egg flippy thing?"

This troper has a really bad memory considering names. People as well as other terms. So math runs basically with that round thingy you put between two numbers to err... connect them and stuff.

It also works well with people, using their individual features for describing them.

Happens to this tropette all the time, as she doesn't have that great of a memory. She may have inherited all this BuffySpeak from her dad (see below) #QUOTE# Dad: Did you get that thing done? #QUOTE# Tropette: What thing? #QUOTE# Dad: You know, that thing with the thing.

I once asked my brother to get a butter knife (we were making sandwiches) and he asked: #QUOTE# "Do you want me to get the steak knife?" #QUOTE# So I replied: #QUOTE# "No, get the other knife that does knifey things."

This troper's father once completely puzzled her mother by telling her to "take that thing and thing it." This is the only instance that said troper had ever heard the word "thing" used as a verb.

Minnesotan colloquialisms involves alot of Buffy Speak (mostly from teenagers). There's alot of variations, but it'll more or less boil down to describing something as "thing, thingy, or thingymabob" when the word doesn't come. Most people don't even realize/acknowledge this however. I could almost say it's my native tongue. =D

I am very smart. But I have the explanation skills of a retarded monkey. Observe in this conversation where my mother laments that her hair is thinning as she gets older: #QUOTE# Me: Well why don't we get you a... hair... curer. #QUOTE# Mom: A hair curer? #QUOTE# Me: You know! One of those curing, hair growing... things. #QUOTE# Mom: Like a Chia Pet? #QUOTE# Me: I give up.

This Troper occasionally has this problem, particularly in French. I'm currently doing some Classics courses at a French university for transfer credits, and have had to refrain from answering really basic questions because I couldn't answer them in French without ridiculous baby talk/Buffy speak and bizarre hand flailing motions. Then all the French will sometimes make me forget words I should know in English, resulting in me sitting and staring at my notes trying to reconstruct phrases like "funeral pyre" ("I know this word... it's where you burn a dead warrior's body, like in Star Wars..."). I also once reconstructed the phrase "trial lectures" for [academic] job talks when speaking to a professor - oops.

Heard this in chem today-> "[Insert chemistry experient here] is ''totally'' exothermic-ing." Good times by all. XD

I find it hard to put my thoughts into words, and have quite a low volcabulary for someone who used to be a bit of a genius as a kid (I seem to get dumber each year!), and I forget words for things, or don't have a word to describe something, and it's hard for people to guess what I'm saying, especially on debates on forums, where I have some idea of what I want to say, but I dont have words to explain it, so explain it in my own way and confuse everyone, then get confused by the replies which are in big words, and give up. My best friend is very clever and he uses big words and talks with me about clever stuff, most of my replies confuse him, or I just get frustrated with it and say that I know what he's talking about but I don't have words for what I want to say.

This troper's calculus teacher used to do this all the time, usually as a way of making certain formulas easier to remember. One of the best examples is her mnemonic for the derivative of the natural log, "The derivative of the thing over the thing."

Must be a maths-y thing. My maths tutor describes the conjugate rule. #QUOTE#''"Something you'll come across a lot in maths is... you have thing plus thing, or thing minus thing, so you multiply by thing minus thing or thing plus thing, over thing minus thing or thing plus thing, and you get stuff."''

This troper accidentally coined the term 'derivitize' during a bout of Angrish over difficult calculus homework. It quickly became common vocabulary in my class.

I am yet another example of this... being bilingual is not necessarily a bonus. It only means that I end up Buffyspeaking in two languages, because I can't remember the words for what I want to say in one of them.

Me too! Whenever there's a word in Swedish I don't remember (which is worryingly often, seeing as it ''is'' my first language) I use a severely Swedishified version of the English word instead.

This troper can't describe things at all. So I always use thing and thingy and stuff. My best friend is worse, because he adds 'y' to the end of a lot of nouns. He calls his computer chair the "typey chair", for example.

While this troper and her friends tend to use BuffySpeak quite a bit, the best example she can think of is her father telling her to fetch him something from the kitchen by saying, "Go get the black thingy in the place with the other thingies."

Today my mother requested that I hand her "the fire thingy." It was a lighter.

This troper sometimes lapses into this when I can't remember the name or term to describe something (and sometimes gesture at the thingy in question). Which leads to lines like this: ->'''Me:''' (on the large unorginized collection of video games and movies my sister and her kids have) We seriously need one of those... *gestures to shelves having ''somehow'' forgtotten what they were called* thingies that hold the things...

This troper abuses this trope to the point it's a VerbalTic.

This troper's family uses this so much that we can understand it. "Could you get the thingy for me? It's in the thingo with the stuff."

Me, as English is not my main language. But it can sometimes happen in Portuguese as well, I just forget names of things.

This troper once referred to North Korea as being at the top of America's "Fuck These Guys List", when he failed to think of a better term immediately. Also on the imaginary list were China, Iran, Cuba, and Matthew Mcconaughey.

This troper's regular, real-world vernacular is ''filled'' with this, mixed with a whole load of deadpan snarkery. In fact, my friends can tell when something very not good is about to happen to somebody when I lose the Buffy Speak and adopt a ''very'' dark calm to my voice and wordplay.

This troper once referred to a gun as a "shooty-boomy thing" in jest. I ''do'' play the trope straight, though, because my ADHD-addled brain looses track of simple words just as I'm about to say them.

I used to do this a lot. Not so much "That thingy with the thing thing." (although I'm sure I've said that at least once) but more I'm trying to say a normal sentence and I get stuck half way. For example: "And then you have to... to... to to to...uh... to... thing?"

I have trouble with expressing my thoughts in words, sometimes I dont have words for things, and sometimes my thoughts are so complicated there isnt a word for them. This happened yesterday when I got my new computer, and was trying to ask how to do something to one of my online friends, who was completely confused by what i meant.

This happens whenever this Troper's brain and mouth run out of sync. This can either produce ridiculously long sentences with lots of thingies in them or "That thing that does/is...", accompanied by some arm-flailing and charade until the word comes out.

One time, this troper and her boyfriend were waiting for a light rail train. This troper noticed a train approaching a few blocks away and attempted to ascertain if it was the correct one, but was unable to due to the glare from the train's front light obscuring the sign. She then uttered the immortal line, "I can't see well... That light is obfuscating the... the thingy." From a fifty-cent vocabulary word to BuffySpeak in one sentence. Impressive.

This troper uses BuffySpeak all the time and i tend to forget the names of things. For example i once forgot the word for cow so i proceeded to explain "you know that thing animal that eats grass and goes moooooooo". Also I ofthen refers to my friens as things like "that thing said to me that blah blah" wile pointing to them, they often reply with "im not a thing" or "so i got demoted to a thing uh?" or something around those lines until they get used to it. Also when i'm asked where something is it ofthen turns out in a exchange like this one: "where is the xxxx" "there" "there is really big you know" "it's there!" while pointing to the place where the thing is "thats why where?" "in the furniture black thing! somewhere in there!"

This #QUOTE#me: "so it was like pfiiiuuuuu and then this wierd thingy went woshhhhh plang, and..." all of that whil making hand gestures #QUOTE#bother: "so you saw it, its pretty cool ritgh?" #QUOTE#me to my father: "im lucky people understand me in this place" #QUOTE# dad: "what?"

I have no problem with expressing thoughts in words, and I am usually proficient in writing and coming up with sentences (sometimes to the extent of SesquipedalianLoquaciousness), but when talking to other people and acknowledging their names while at the same time trying to compose words and comments on the go, I suddenly and involuntarily have my vocabulary composed of overly generalized words such as well... that thing. This may have to do with that neurotic anxiety thing and my brain being unsynchronized with those other nervous system thingies. Oh come on, you trope thing in that wiki object! Why do you have to like, totally ruin my life!

I do this all the time. When explaining things in class, I wave my hands around a lot (in gestures that usually don't make much sense) use a ton of sentences that are slightly unusual (Oh, there's the thing which moves when the other thing moves, eh? And it's the opposite because that makes it 0, and that's where the roots are, and that's why the thing is over there instead of on the other side, isn't it?) and use a ton of run on sentences. I do all right with typing, though. I think this is because my mouth keeps trying to catch up with my brain and it doesn't always end up in a way that makes a ton of sense. So far I know only two people who can understand me when I'm trying to explain something, my friend, who does this herself and is used to me doing it, and my math teacher, because he's one of the smartest people ever.

While telling my friend what to take to wake up, this troper said 'those little 5 Hour Energy sippy thingies'.

My family have a running joke that we do whenever someone's trying to remember something we've done and are a little vague on the details. It devolves into "Oh, you remember when we were at that place and did that thing? And there was that stuff? And we met that guy?" "Yeah, it was awesome!"

My friends and I also have this gag, usually involving "The guy with the beard and the tree and the fwooshy thing." In one particularly memorable instance, we went on this is extremely vague vein for a very long time and managed to convince all of our guy friends that we knew precisely what everyone else meant, and were all talking about the same thing.

My caregiver is not a cooky choppy maid type thing.

I'm very prone to this... kind of... speech-y thing. And stuff. It runs in the family, so we can understand each other.