Most languages evolve and adopt new terms to describe new concepts. For example, we use the word “courriel” in Quebec to refer to email. It is derived from “courrier électronique”. The rate of adoption of new terms is much slower than the rate at which new concepts become popular. So an English word is used while semantic catches up. Eventually, the language heals itself.

On the other hand, social software forces a large proportion of the population to use English to effectively communicate with one another. With so many people speaking and writing a very basic English, with a very limited vocabulary and questionable grammar, a less than correct form of English becomes prevalent. I offer my prose as a proof of this statement… Eventually the language degrades to a pidgin English that corresponds to the lowest common form of English that everyone can share. It is not clear to me if English can recovers. The fact we use English as a common language is thus a blessing and a curse for the people who still learn it as a mother tongue.

I’m very suspicious of official attempts to maintain the purity of language. Many years ago I lived in Swansea, in South Wales. Although part of Wales, Swansea was historically never a Welsh speaking area as most of its inhabitants arrived from other parts of England in the industrial revolution. But the local politicians decided that as it was in Wales they must have bilingual road signs. Unfortunately, many places had never had Welsh names, because their inhabitants didn’t speak Welsh. So they had to form a committee whose job was to invent Welsh place names so they could put them on the signs. This is the sort of Pythonesque activity that results when you meddle with the evolution of a language.

Also, when I read your example my first reaction was that it was an example of auto-translation. This is beginning to feel like an inverse Turing test. I.e. I can no longer distinguish the person from the computer, but sadly because the person has deteriorated, not because the computer has improved.