Oxford London Lecture 2012: "21st Century -- The Last Century of Youth" 

Most linguistic experts are of the opinion that a persons sociolect or idiolect should be accepted and embraced as a variation in our rich linguistic culture. You only need to look back through the timeline of the development of the English language to see that prescriptivist attitudes, similar to yours, are a common feature in language development. How you speak today is largely influenced by the "explosions of randomness" of the past so ironically you are fighting to retain a way of speaking that those with a similar attitude to yours were previously trying to prevent.

Language can change because of a new requirement (eg computer science), because poets want to stretch its capacity to express what they mean, OR simply because people are too lazy or incompetent to learn the language as it stands. A rich linguistic culture stretches itself as an enrichment rather than through a proliferation of errors. At what age should your triumph of 'descriptive' over 'prescriptive' grammar set in? Should we tell our primary school teachers simply to observe and rejoice at whatever their students write or say? Advanced civilisations moderate linguistic change and distinguish between good and bad modifications.

John Pine The English language evolved through a concoction of various European and archaic languages. In order to establish one's understanding and application, it could be said that even those possessing "excellent" ways of speaking, are in themselves flawed; communication through presentation (extemporanous deliveries, uses in tenses, adjectives, etc) are in existence because of the multi cultural society we live in. We are in the 21st century after all, welcome.

Jumi Adeleke Yes, and English has stolen more words and linguistic structures than any other language, I think. That's fine. But we should have monitors to assess the changes (called lexicographers and teachers) and to decide whether to accept them or not. When you bend your arm, your triceps oppose and control the action of the biceps to make the movement smooth and beautiful. Many bad changes have slipped by - like the confusion between 'bastard' and 'dastard', still not sorted out. But we have a choice.