[Archangelsk]

Indeed.

[Paulus Invictus]

Hey dude, like, you know, like, wats wrong with English? All you need to do is listen to young people struggle to make themselves understood with their limited grasp of the language. It's sad, but English is declining fast.

[scab4faa]

Why English is hard to learn
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

[Inyo-Mono]

As the father of two teenagers I know all to well how true this article is.

[Nebullis]

Have no fear. Microsoft spell check and grammar editors will keep the English language safe from degradation by the upper classes.

[sergeantdave]

And the misuse of effect vs affect. Add, too, the redundant "At this point in time."

[cyborg]

In an America that has embraced the tastes and standards of the black ghetto, I occasionally see it written that Ebonics is a language to be respected as much as English.

** Blame everything on the black ghetto. My gradeschool english teacher was a white woman from Long Island who insisted that 'the' was pronounced 'thuh' and not 'thee' the way my mother taught me. Before there was ebonics, people were butchering the english language.

[MattAMiller]

Language changes. There's no sense in trying to stop it.

[gcruse]

continuous [doesn't mean] continual

I wouldn't blame the writers, necessarily.  This is from  Your Dictionary.com.

con·tin·u·ous
(click to hear the word) (kn-tny-s)
adj.

1. Uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent. See Synonyms at continual.