The English language is constantly changing due to regional dialects, speech patterns, and people just creating new words for new thinks. This is a fact that has always amazed or angered people depending on the time period or context. Take for example William Shakespeare who had great innovations on how we speak today and some would say revolutionized the English of his time period. People didnt speak the same as he wrights in his plays, per-say, but much of his logical patterns and words wore copied over and over again tell it was the norm.
Now im not saying we are all on the level of Shakespeare, but every now and then some one misspells something that catches on or creates a shortened version of a word that catches on.
This is an example of a new word pattern that has cropped up in our language more and more. Why? Well thats easy, because its faster. The world has accelerated such that our speech must move forward with it. Many of the words used in this example are just shortened versions of words and expressions that are already in existence. (Oh my god, did you see? *laughing* talk to you later.)
Furthermore things that we take from the internet infiltrate our speech patters. Think back to the last time some one use lol instead of laughing or just said ttyl. Perhaps it hasn't happened to you yet but start listening to younger people talk lol.
tl;dr speech is changing again.
From what I remember, Shakespeare's writing was considered disgusting stuff for the proles and not regarded as anything neat until language became less and less refined (intended to be vague here). I'm hoping that "wrights" is some play on the word "playwright," otherwise I see lots of angry proofreading going on between the both of us when we work on our project...
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You've chosen an interesting topic, but I would like to see more specifics. Give me an example of a word Shakespeare made that is now used regularly. Also, you don't really set up the criticism people have of new words. Give me an example of an article you are responding to where someone has said this annoys them. Also, staggering amounts of grammatical errors. here.
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