Why do people get a complex when the language grammar changes to suit the age?

Answer 1

It's not necessarily a complex, it can be legitimate concern (or not, or have pluses and minuses).
Some changes even playful and creative ones seriously risk dumbing down the people who use them:
- avoiding using any other verb tenses than the present tense
- text language

The perfect book that nailed this in a light and readable style was: "The Evasion-English Dictionary" by Maggie Balistreri
She carefully categorised about nine different uses of "like" and seven for "whatever". Read it - you'll be amazed at how accurate she is. She has a serious and valid point - people adopt a new change (like "like"), but then become unable to express themselves more articulately.

Having said that some old-fashioned grammar was overdue to be done away with: ending a sentence in a preposition, the verb to be not taking an emphatic pronoun (as it does in French) by saying "it is I".

The most harmless changes are say ending a sentence in "not!", or malapropisms("misunderestimate"), but those don't count as grammar.

Answer 2

English as a language evolves and every year the dictionary is updated.some words are slang others are adopted from other languages, all are welcome.punctuation and spelling are important but not all ways necessary especially if words or sentences are abbreviated.I try to spell and punctuate properly because that's how I was taught ,I ignore the fact that I'm crap at both and keep on trying.It's annoying that I don't know all the abbreviations but it hasn't made me an English language fascist,it could be worse France has a law and a government office to enforce the use of proper French so basically you can't have a pizza or a kebab because they have to be call them by their French equivalent.anything to keep the language pure.

Answer 3

Each generation has had its own slang and peculiar use of language. I grew up with 'yes man', 'no man', 'cool man' etc. Some modern speech has altered the structure of English to such an extent that it is no longer suitable for comprehensive communication. Poor education has probably left many people with insufficient knowledge of the English language to enable them to revert to the original and thereby become employable in something more than the most menial of jobs.

Answer 4

It's called

Answer 5

there is only one english language....maybe that is why.

if it isn't in websters then it is slang...slang represents ignorance.