I was not aware the official rules of language had been reduced for the benefit of the lowest common denominator.
You can have a vibrant, adaptable, ever changing language that is spoken by millions around the world, where the rules change over the years based on common usage, or a dead one like Latin were the rules never change and brownie points are won by nitpicking the details. You just can’t have it both ways.
Words like canyon and tomorrow were spelled differently less than a hundred years ago. The definition of words like nice, awful, font, fathom, guy and wench have changed from their origins. We have gone from Bridget Jones’ Diary to Bridget Jones’s Diary in my lifetime. In the 1920s a bimbo was a tough guy.
That’s the English language. Hey, I don’t make the rules!
Forty years ago I would have agreed with you; sadly that is no longer true. The LCD won decades ago; makes no difference to me. They can use their words, I'll use mine.
The new common phrase that makes me wince daily, e.g.
Instead of "if they had known" the pompous-sounding. "if they would have known..."
Even dictionaries have played along. I view the phenomenon as "White Ebonics."