One change that drives me nuts is the intentional change to certain style guides for the plural of nouns ending in -ex/-ix from -ices to -exes/-ixes (e.g. the plural index is now indexes, not indices, and the plural of appendix is appendixes, not appendices).
The better title would have been “Is English Grammar Deteriorating”.
English, the spoken language seems to be in better shape than proper English grammar.
In all the examples given, I cannot imagine the listener missing the proper context upon hearing the words, whether or not the written form of it has grammatical errors.
However, I would agree, that WRITTEN ENGLISH GRAMMAR should be taught with greater strength and obtain better common practice than what it has fallen to lately.
Some of the problem is I believe coming out of our “computer typing” experience. My own brain will, when I am typing frenetically, run on automatic and spell what sounds correctly, if spoken, but fail in written grammar and even type a word that is totally wrong but sounds exactly like the word I intended. It’s almost as if the brain has one set of places for the spoken word and setting context correctly with it, and another for written grammar, and the one that comes to mental recognition most quickly is the sound, not the spelling.
As a “development” process, that sounds likely, as we are “speakers” only for quite some time before we learn to write.
“black English,” including, “I cannot understand what these kids are saying.”
Live PD and or COPS are great examples of this. Many of the people (not just the young) cannot be understood.
My hearing isn’t the best, so I use closed captioning, but they can’t interrupt what has just been said either!
Mumble, mumble dog. Mumble, mumble bro. Mumble, mumble, F this and F that mumble, mumble. Mumble, mumble disrespect me bro. Mumble, mumble am I on LIVE PD bro?
whose axing the question?
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Wat deap whole dose this looser live underneeth of?
I blame the “automistake” bug found in our dumbphones.