Well, IMHO this is due to several factors, namely LOL, the new McSpeak, "really", but I will TTYL about it. IM me later if you want to know more. BTW you can read more about this here.

Laccetti, a professor of humanities at Stevens Institute of Technology and Molsk, in their essay entitled The Lost Art of Writing,[9][10] are critical of the acronyms, predicting reduced chances of employment for students who use such acronyms, stating that, "Unfortunately for these students, their bosses will not be 'lol' when they read a report that lacks proper punctuation and grammar, has numerous misspellings, various made-u[b]...

Well, IMHO this is due to several factors, namely LOL, the new McSpeak, "really", but I will TTYL about it. IM me later if you want to know more. BTW you can read more about this here.

Laccetti, a professor of humanities at Stevens Institute of Technology and Molsk, in their essay entitled The Lost Art of Writing,[9][10] are critical of the acronyms, predicting reduced chances of employment for students who use such acronyms, stating that, "Unfortunately for these students, their bosses will not be 'lol' when they read a report that lacks proper punctuation and grammar, has numerous misspellings, various made-up words, and silly acronyms."

If language is trodden down by this slang and emphasis on visual media instead of reading and writing in real language, the West will become virtually illiterate, and not even know it.

jmatts78 said:

We may lose some, but some new ones might start to form in that time too, perhaps.

Language change doesn't work that way, and in literate societies, the rate of language change slows down, because the availability of the printed word tends to freeze word forms. Consider the changes in the last 1,000 years to two languages: English and Icelandic. In order for a modern English speaker to read things like Beowulf or The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle requires the same amount of learning as reading a foreign language. On the other hand, Icelandic-speaking people can read literature that was composed a thousand years ago with no problem. This was because Iceland ...

jmatts78 said:

We may lose some, but some new ones might start to form in that time too, perhaps.

Language change doesn't work that way, and in literate societies, the rate of language change slows down, because the availability of the printed word tends to freeze word forms. Consider the changes in the last 1,000 years to two languages: English and Icelandic. In order for a modern English speaker to read things like Beowulf or The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle requires the same amount of learning as reading a foreign language. On the other hand, Icelandic-speaking people can read literature that was composed a thousand years ago with no problem. This was because Iceland developed a strong written tradition far earlier than the rest of Europe, which didn't start catching up until the printing press came into use.

Of course the event that exerted the greatest influence on English was the Norman invasion of 1066, which saw the majority of the native English nobility replaced with French speakers. It took about four hundred years for the two languages to cross class boundaries and merge.