Abstract
Abstract English is full of words, but the processes by which they form are relatively few. Slang forms according to the same processes as mainstream English, but it bends those processes a little in order to resist convention or the linguistic status quo. Essentially all English word-formative processes operate within slayer slang; but slayer slang, both as an engine driving the formation of new words and as a social lexicon, a style of language use, depends very much on the processes by which it is made and the novel ways in which it handles what are, by and large, the tools with which we craft new words in English.
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