Reply #129: Yes, actually I seem to be. [View All]

Haven't had any complaints by those around me!

But on this topic, yes, I have disdain for people who sit around being drama queens about "THE DEATH OF ____________!!!!" I work with English teachers who feel if they don't pound the kids with five million grammar worksheets a month, they'll just turn out to be hopeless losers and they say the same exact things you did in that post. (And their poor students are poor writers because they only understand usage skills in isolation, not in context.)

Nothing's dying. It's a different register of language, that's all. A responsible English teacher knows to teach the kids the difference, if they don't already know, and stop fretting over something as silly as texting.