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The "Anglicization" of Europe [132]
Fact of the matter is that English has eroded, indeed, has been dumbed down, simplified, watered down, nearly destroyed, in order to accomodate the ever vast numbers of immigrants who need to be integrated into US society!
Unlike French, even German, most other languages, American English has never had her own Academie Francaise, Received Pronunciation, Duden-Gesellschaft or Instituto Cervantes, to assist in preserving as well as maintaining a higher standard of usage.
Therefore, little surprise that in America, hence throughout the world, "anything goes" in English, as the US continues to lead, respectively MIS-lead, the way.
What is often rationalized as "creative", "rich", and "dynamic", usually turns out to be nothing more than lazy, dull-witted, vulgar, and merely attention grabbing.
No matter what anyone here insists, I can easily recall when everyday conversations with my high school classmates, in as well as outside English class, yielded far more reward than most of what passes as English today.
If a fellow student, typically under the influence of pot or alcohol, arrived in class and started spouting, "Yo, like,uh-, I liked that book "Great Expansions" or somethin' like that by that guy the teacher told us, yeah dude, it was like totally weird how Pip....." that individual would have been laughed out of the classroom, not by the teacher.... but by the other students!
This would have proven so embarrassing, they would have been forced to shape up or ship out,
And rightly so, I'd say.
