Expanding the English Lexicon

Mishihari Lord · Sep 24, 2014

Scrivener of Doom said:
American English also has fewer words than real English for another reason: American English does not use adverbs.

Really?! <-- adverb

Dannyalcatraz · Sep 24, 2014

Scrivener of Doom said:
American English also has fewer words than real English for another reason: American English does not use adverbs.

That seems amazingly inaccurate.

Janx · Sep 25, 2014

Elven said:
They are not new words or terms,
(Shouldn't count if its on sites such as Urbandictionary, but if it did i'd use the term Spasmosis (AKA Spazmosis)
Where you soak up the stupid of people you've been around,)

What you need is a new term to indicate a new concept, not already in english

They new words or phrases if I coined them before they ever showed up on Urbandictionary.

Given that I deliberately made those up outside of other influences in order to craft new words (XbOne and Sleepitrons specifically), I call that success that they show up in usage.

Samloyal23 · Sep 30, 2014

Scrivener of Doom said:
American English also has fewer words than real English for another reason: American English does not use adverbs.

Well, there are really only two forms of the English language, British and Wrong.

Scrivener of Doom · Sep 30, 2014

Samloyal23 said:
Well, there are really only two forms of the English language, British and Wrong.

Agreed.

Real English and Pidgin.

Dannyalcatraz · Sep 30, 2014

Ha!

We broke free of your empire*, iced your tea, mutated cricket into something watchable, invented a new form of football- while calling the old version of it by a name the English coined- make huge cars (that actually work) and rule the waves....

'Merica!