Buffyspeak Is Beyond Me.

[robby]

I've started using the closed captioning to watch certain TV shows. Some TV dramas have dialog that to me, seems slurred, with quickly spoken words running together, and I just can't follow it. I used to call it "Buffyspeak" after the actresses in "Buffy The Vampyre Slayer". Either I'm so out of it that I can't understand a hip new dialect, or my hearing is failing me.

Comments

[hughknox.livejournal.com]

it sounds exactly like my first awareness that my hearing was failing. get it checked out.

[robby.livejournal.com]

I already know that my hearing isn't the greatest, but I honestly think that the style of speaking on some of these shows is what throws me. I'll pay attention and try to see if it gets progressively worse, at this point it's no big deal, and I don't think there's a way to medically treat hearing loss.

[hughknox.livejournal.com]

i have extraordinarily good hearing aides obtained through the occupational rehabitional people which i seldom wear, but probably should. i watch movies on the pc and usually hear 40-60 percent of the dialogue without the aides. curiously enough, i still know what's going on. i wear the hearing aides primarily in the spring and summer so i can hear the birds. i have also found that there is an upside to being deaf, since there is so much shit i dont want to hear anyway.