In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba,Tanjiro is a well meaning guy and definitely not stupid, but he is quite terrible at explaining technical aspects of his sword and martial arts abilities, he earnestly tries to explain to his friends his experiences with it was pow wow, the I was like boom, boom, said events occur when Tanjiro tried to explain his Full Focus Breathing training to Zenitsu and Inosuke, and later when he tries to explain how his body achieved the Demon Slayer Mark.In the dub of Hetalia: Axis Powers, when a soldier saw a painting that Holy Roman Empire had done of young Italy and asked, "Is this your boyfriend or girlfriend or gender-neutral chibi thing?".In the dub, Simon from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann refers to the multiple universes created through a Lotus-Eater Machine as multi-dimensional whatevers.
Not like "Being" is a hard word to say or remember, but try telling that to his face. Ali Al-Saachez from Mobile Suit Gundam 00 uses this trope to refer to his enemies, "Celestial-Whatchamacallit!".In Fate/Zero, Rider calls stealth bombers 'big black B-2 thingies,' and he describes the Gate of Babylon as 'showing off with a lot of shiny-goldy things.'.From the Excel Saga dub: "I have built this wooden underling-like puppet with an optional soy sauce puffy thingy!".In that case, it sounded more like Kurama (who is a Really 700 Years Old Chessmaster) was trying to Buffy-Speak so that Yusuke would understand him. In the YuYu Hakusho dub, on the way to Sensui's hideout, Yuusuke asks Kurama what the seeds he's spreading around are for, and our favorite red-haired Bishōnen goes into an explanation about lighting their way, trailing off into phosphorus and bread crumbs.His teammates point out that he sucks at explaining because it's all instinct to him. Team's libero Nishinoya uses similar sound effects when he tries to explain how he receives perfectly.Tsukishima points out that none of what he says makes sense on more than one occasion. In Haikyuu!! Hinata likes to describe movements, tosses, and attacks with words like "bwah!" "oomph!" "gwah!" when he gets excited (which is always).Improperly handled, it can sound ludicrously fake and may damage Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
Buffy Speak allows a level of timelessness that helps avoid Totally Radical tropes. Slang language, especially for the younger set, tends to change at warp speed.
When properly handled, Buffy Speak can give the sense of a teenaged group's special jargon or argot without necessarily imitating anything actually found in the real world. And sometimes Name McAdjective is employed. Often includes Oh God, with the Verbing! or similar. like a thing that doesn't go over very well." Metaphorgotten is frequently a side effect. One of the most obvious elements is a lack of relevant vocabulary, leading to both unconventional adjectival-noun structures like "shooty-gun thing", and incomplete, floundering similes that turn back on themselves in frustration: "That idea went over like. Any of a variety of speech patterns used to indicate that a character, while intelligent, is perhaps too young, too inexperienced, and/or insufficiently educated (or simply talks too fast) to properly express the complex ideas and thoughts that they clearly possess.