delete_ (remove)'s status on Saturday, 30-Apr-11 13:50:03 UTC
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Maybe I'm over#analyzing it, but it seems like the more recent episodes play at vocabulary-building tropes by using particular words multiple times throughout the episode in a way that they're important, but such that the context is appropriate and tends to differentiate it from other familiar terms. For example "assistant" is used multiple times throughout Owl's Well that Ends Well to refer to Spike's working role in relation to Twilight. It's reasonable to think that some of the younger viewers might not be too familiar with that term except in passing. The context it's used in makes it pretty easy to pick up they way they mean it in the show. Similarly, the term "Excuses" is used instead of "lies" in another episode, in such a context that "lies" wouldn't be strictly true. If this is the case, that's a clever way of going about it. #analysis
