text: I think a lax attitude among Americans, particularly younger Americans, has created the problems you mention.  I think the ubiquity of the Internet has made the problems more readily apparent.  To the extent that I control anything, and I do control the language I speak and write and, until they are older, the language my children use, it will never become a bonafide language.\n\nThank you for a wonderfully thoughtful question.  Its time has certainly come.