This ain't an English (or American English) problem. We've got the same symptoms in Germany (of course in German). I think it's a problem of the medium. The computers are faster than people can think, so why correct misspellings, bad grammar and wrong punctuation anyway? The spell checkers make people lazy. Why think for yourself, if the spell checker corrects everything?
And there are several other problems like etiquette, e.g. how to address someone else (in German much more complicated than in English), or the abuse of English buzzwords (to make it even worse, decline or conjugate them as if they were German words; we call the result Germish or Denglish), for example downgeloadet (downloaded): now it's officially a correct German word! *shiver*
Sleepery Jeem |
