[SunkenCiv]

"The findings came from the computer analyse," which will also include that sentence in the next go-round.

[ClearCase_guy]

Who can refudiate such a finding?

[Moltke]

Ebonics is not English. Remove Ebonics from the statistic, and the ‘growth’ would be small.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“There is no such thing as ‘the Queen’s English’.
The property has gone into the hands of a joint
stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!”

- Mark Twain

[ThanhPhero]

The language is “growing much faster now” because before the advent of Webster’s Third International Dictionary, the big dictionaries were prescriptive. A word had to stay around a while before it became a dictionary word. Now if two people can be attested to have used a word more than once it is enshrined in the dictionary.It is part of the Deconstructionist mindset that says language is essentially meaningless anyway and expresses only power relationships between groups.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The argument could be made that the bar has been lowered.

[colorado tanker]

But nearly half of the new words are not included in any dictionary and are dubbed lexical "dark matter". They are either slang or invented jargon.

K.

[eleni121]

The English language would not exist were it not for Greek. It owes its alphabet, its writing direction, and a major portion of its vocabulary to Greek.