English used to be, very definitely, the prime language and the major way of communication in Australia. We learned English when we went to school, including speech, listening, grammar, punctuation, and all the rules that went with the use of our language in oral or written form. 

Students going for year 12 had to take English as a compulsory unit – at least one sometimes more than one unit.

When I trained as a teacher, the English Method and its teaching was a number one unit. We had to be able to speak correctly, read correctly, listen carefully, and have no speech imperfections in our make-up.

No longer! The purity of English has turned it into a hybrid form of communication and distorted its expression.

With the inroads of IT end the corrupted language which is part of these platforms, we are drifting in terms of English language competence, from bad to worse.

This acceptance of language mediocrity blows my mind.