I have just got to agree with Bruce on his Aardvark rant today about the English language and it's demise.
I can't claim to be brilliant with the use of the it, but I do at least try.
What makes me gobsmacked is the inability of young programmers to create prose which are destined for the human brain. They know the discipline of syntax, punctuation and spelling when they write for the computer, but the same respect for the recipient seems to mysteriously vanish when a report for human consumption is required.
I don't blame the new "txting" phenomenon for this, even though it does seem to leak into mainstream English at inappropriate times (particularly when marketing geniuses think they are being trendy).
There just seems to be an unwillingness to respect the recipient of the message; perhaps a sense of a casualness which they feel needs to be translated into sloppyness in the delivery. I don't know.
The alternative explanation seems even less palateable: that the small fortune we spend on education in this country is not particularly effective ... and a bigger fortune wouldn't fix it.