I am the world's biggest pest about language. I totally detest the "new shorthand" that has made illiterates out of millions of people. My own son argues with me that it doesn't really matter - communication is what it's all about. "The language," he argues, "continues to evolve. You can't stop\ progress."
Nuts and rubbish! "evolution" implies improvement - not vulgarization. Language is like music. It can sound like a traffic accident, or it can sound like it should. Where do you draw the lines on so-called "evolution"? Is "I should of went" acceptable? How about "I don't know nothing?"
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