I am writing a paper on the practicality of the English language and I am using as examples nouns designating?

Question

new realities and the verbs that quickly derive from them. For example: first, there was the pager then, soon after that, "page me" came into the English language. "Beep me" and "email me" are other examples. Questions: 1)Do you find this phenomenon a strange one? 2) Do the verbs in case seem strange and make you laugh?

P.S. If I tried to translate those verbs into my language, I would be laughed at for days. We have phrases like "give me a beep", "send me an emai" and "send me a message on my pager" (they don't exist any longer, I know, it was just an example).

Thank you for your reading this. One more thing: can you provide me with more examples to show how direct the English language is?

Answer 1

No, it's just another case of Americans being in a hurry, so shortening their words and phrases. I had a friend born in the 1920's and on the alphabet blocks he had as a child, "A" had a picture of a car, since at that time they were called automobiles, rather than cars. Text message "spelling" is a further example of this.