To provide a light defense, English orthography is a mess. The problem is mitigated these days by built in spell checkers, but if you ever sit down and try to write a paper by hand, it isn't so trivial to spell words any more -- trying to get the vowels right based entirely off memory rather than phonetic value is easier for commonly used words, but if you delve to lesser used words, it can really grind your gears.
I've wondered at times if English will end up like Afrikaans someday where conjugation of verbs according to person will fully disappear. Really, we only have 3rd person singular that has a different conjugation (ex: I run, he/she/it runs). My hunch is that the Internet / mass media will have somewhat of a regulating affect among a majority of speakers, but could occur in small pockets of the population that all ready feature some degree of 'code-switching', as in urban black populations where 'AAVE' is used in parallel with standard English depending on whom is being addressed. This could leech onto 'educated' whites/asians/etc who seek to emulate the manner of diction used by 'thuggin' black people they idolize or see as ironic.
This guy gets into it without touching race with a ten-foot pole:
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The thing is, people don't keep physical dictionaries on hand unless they grew up in a home wherein literacy was valued, and as the saying goes, just like good manners, good grammar costs nothing. However, it does take either nascent or enculturated curiosity.
This is why even normie/left-adjacent/non-American [dare I say British?] YouTubers have been caught using
ick-inspiring constructions like "was ran by," and it drives me nuts. "Ran" is the universal simple past and every other version of the verb contains "run." Was run by, has run, had run, was running, is running, runs, will have run, &c. The simple past of most of these verbs is seemingly the upper limit of some very widespread misuse, and Grammarly is a tool people can use if they want to get better, but most of them have no idea. It's a free app, so maybe you are the product, but there is a paid tier.
People don't read real books anymore. They read lots of text, but not properly-written prose. Ideally, everyone would have already learned these very basic elements and then gone on to read regularly, but even major news sites seem to have poor editing.
Language is a virus. I know I'm just as susceptible as anyone else to the virality of slang, poor usage, and memes. This is why this stuff bugs me. Everything I've observed in the past has taught me that a cultural threat easily becomes an existential threat.
