Language is alive. It ebbs and flows, it changes. It joins with others. It always has.
A young man goes to war, deep in the jungles of Vietnam. He comes back and his speech has changed. New words and "sayings" have become his norm. He is faced with "BOOCOO" problems or a "world of hurt".
If he can't spell any better than 'boocoo', he's got beaucoup problems, all right, because standards do matter.
Ask the guy who put a handwritten sign on the thingamajig that you slide your credit card through to pay for something - his sign said "Use finger, pen is broken" but his terrible handwriting left out the space between the 3rd & 4th words.
There was a lot of hilarity at his expense.
Yes, we will have English laced with Spanish, French, etc etc etc. Some of the results will be good, some not. Some languages live, some have died, even if the people's that spoke them survive.
Standards ARE important, BUT, picking on the pickers is too!
