Is "Talkable" a valid adjective or something made up?

[Your_Fear]

Is Talkable a valid adj or something made up?

Thought it should be talkative, most dictionaries won’t recognize Talkable as a valid word but then I found it in The urban dictionary which I do not think is serious enough and this Collins dictionary which does include the word.

diccionario.reverso.net/ingles-d … s/talkable

So now I am confused.

Also what is the right expression: Anyways/Anyway, what I learned the last 24 hours is…

Thank you in advance,

Marco

[Mister_Micawber]

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‘Talkable’ is rare and means ‘able to be talked (about)’. ‘Talkative’ means ‘talking a lot’.
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[Molly]

Talkable as a valid word but then I found it in The urban dictionary which I do not think is serious enough and this Collins dictionary which does include the word.

If these are OK, why not “talkable”?

profitable
walkable
charitable
fashionable
runable

etc.

[Mister_Micawber]

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Well, some of those aren’t converted verbs, but you’re right.

approachable
distinguishable
unmentionable
biodegradable
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[Your_Fear]

TALKATIVE: may imply a readiness to engage in talk or a disposition to enjoy conversation.

That is what the Merriam-Websters says.

So you are telling me talkable is a valid word?
I am not asking if it is accepted as slang or some new trend, I am asking if it is recognized by whatever institution will regulate the language. We have the Real Academia de la Lengua Española to do that so you should have some sort of same thing for English.

Forgive me if I sound a little apprehensive, but it really matters to me.
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What about the anyway-anyways?

[Molly]

I am not asking if it is accepted as slang or some new trend, I am asking if it is recognized by whatever institution will regulate the language.

English does not possess such an academy, thank goodness.

We have the Real Academia de la Lengua Española to do that so you should have some sort of same thing for English.

And why?

What about the anyway-anyways?

A casual way of saying “anyway”. Problem?

Note, my friend:

“the varieties used by low-prestige groups have rich and systematic grammatical structures and that their stigmatization more often reflects a judgment about their speakers rather than any inherent deficiencies in logic or expressive power.”

bartleby.com/61/66/N0146600.html

[Mister_Micawber]

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‘Anyway’ is acceptable in all quarters; ‘anyways’ is not-- it is considered substandard by many.
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[Molly]

@Mister Micawber

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‘Anyway’ is acceptable in all quarters; ‘anyways’ is not-- it is considered substandard by many.
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Substandard? Non-standard at the most, surely?

Isn’t “anyways” used by most types of speaker to set a popular or informal tone?

CNN:

GEORGE FRAISE, Analyst, Smith Barney I think that we should be looking at whether there are going to be Andersen effects, companies that can’t get their audit reports on time because of all of the problems with Andersen. We haven’t seen that yet, but we could see it. MANNING Well, apparently, very few people have been reading them very diligently, anyways.

ABC news:

Mr. BOB WOODWARD (The Washington Post) (voice-over) At dawn, Somali looters were already gathering outside the Mogadishu airport, which up until today marked the boundary of U.N.-held territory. Pakistani peacekeepers began their withdrawal. Their tanks hurried down the runways, turrets pointed to the rear, where Somalis were already ransacking the airport, taking whatever the U.N. left behind. something quite unusual Anyways, the Pakistanis were guarding the gate.

[Your_Fear]

Thank you Mr. Micawber.

[Yankee]

Hi Marco

I agree with Mister Micawber that “talkable” is not a word you’re likely to hear or read very often.
Here is a link to an article I managed to find in which ‘talkable’ is used:
m.pasadenastarnews.com/topic/327 … /158817630
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[Your_Fear]

Note, my friend:

“the varieties used by low-prestige groups have rich and systematic grammatical structures and that their stigmatization more often reflects a judgment about their speakers rather than any inherent deficiencies in logic or expressive power.”

bartleby.com/61/66/N0146600.html

How a simple question turned into this?

I have no problem with low, medium or high prestige groups as long as both speakers have a decent understanding of the language but you will have to agree that it won’t help a non native speaker to correctly learn English.
If you say that Wassup yo? you IS stubborn, ain’t gonna go there and such is the kind of things I should use, what would happen then?
Should I learn it and then come back here to ask you something I don’t get when I read William Shakespeare because the English I learned was so XXI century and “socialized to the masses” that won’t help me to understand what the writer was trying to convey?

I mean, do not get me wrong. I just made an honest question because I do not know the answer not because I wanted to turn this into some kind of semantics’s battle with social overtones.

And still I do appreciate your help.

Regards,
Marco.

[Your_Fear]

Thank you Ami.

I Google it but found too many confusing results that I rather came here to ask.

Thank you all for your help, I really do appreciate :!:

Marco.