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Tag Archives: dialog
Buffy (and SNL) ‘much’ much?: Slang research with Hulu.com, Part 2
[EDIT (6/7/10): I broke this long post up into two posts.] This is Part 2 (Part 1) on finding early uses of American slang and colloquialisms from the television clips and episodes on Hulu‘s (language corpus of) shows from NBC … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy / Humor Media, HUMOR, LANGUAGE, Language-Sites, Linguistics, Words / Dictionaries
Tagged bill murray, buffy the vampire slayer, colloquialism, corpus, dialog, dialogue, gilda radner, mike myers, pop culture, post-adjective much, sarcasm, saturday night live, slang, snl, television, tv
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SNL NOT!: Slang research with Hulu.com, Part 1
Having trouble finding early uses of slang and colloquialisms? If you’re looking for instances of American (and possibly Canadian) ones, the television clips and episodes on Hulu from NBC Universal (NBC, USA Network, Bravo, Sci Fi, Sundance Channel, Oxygen) and … Continue reading