"no doubt, futile, plea to use the language the way it was meant to be used with simple, declarative sentences and a minimum of jargon"My last English professor made the point that language changes over time. Todays English is not the English spoken 100 years ago or that of Shakespear's day and certainly not the English of 400-500 years ago.
What is important is not the rigid adherence to a fixed set of grammatical rules, but rather that people communicate well.
For once I made an A in English college course. And that, after having grown up in Louisiana, home of America's illiterate in two languages.
So yes, it's a futile plea, get over it, and if I was too blunt, then "My bad".
What's important is the people communicate well.
If communication is the important part of language, why not take the care to use language precisely? That way everyone knows exactly what one means to say. When a speaker or writer uses slang and bad spelling , the meaning is known only to the speaker or writer. Everyone else is forced to make an assumption, leading to poor communication. Grammatical guidelines were created not just to confuse and annoy students BUT TO FACILITATE GOOD COMMUNICATION...
Amazing, huh?