and I’m not talking about “flowery language”. Languages simplify as they get older. I’m talking about basic sentence structure like “I am going to the store.” I have friends who teach English at the college level and kids coming out of high school can literally not put a sentence together, much less a paragraph.
I’m talking about basic sentence structure too. I would never say “I am going to the store” because I’m part of the generation that fully embraced contractions, which also for whatever reason has found a million ways to say “go” without it being “go”. I’d say “I’m hitting the store on the way home, want anything?” notice there’s an evaporated “you” in there too.
It’s how language has always and will always evolve. Complaining about that is like complaining about the existence of weather. It’s unavoidable, it will exist, and whining about it just shows the world you’re a crabby old man.