[Red Boots]

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?

[DannyTN]

"why not take the care to use language precisely?"

Because it's boring. Language should be fun and alive! Wordplay is a fine intellectually stimulating art.

Words that once were considered slang are now accepted even by some of the most staunch grammatarians and new slang words are invented. Slang words usually are more precise and communicate more information that proper King's English can. For example "My Bad" versus "I'm sorry, I made a mistake".

Much more precise! Amazing, huh?