Actually Brinty, it's
not just you (sorry to have to contradict you there, mwood82). What's strange about the English language degradation to me is that it's apparently been, I don't know . . . by osmosis somehow? Organic and rapidly snowballing in the last maybe 10 years. Strange. Even in professional print media it's showing up incorrectly, and then we (all) see this each day repeatedly, and it seems to spread further.
I wonder if this October 14th event, to include all the many people polarized either in belief or disbelief, has propogated in a similarly "organic" fashion, just on a smaller scale.
To be honest, I haven't formed my opinion completely yet on whether these things are just mundane laziness and follow-the-leader sorts of things, or we're seeing examples of our fledgling awareness of our connected human consciousness really starting to take root. (But not necessarily always in the most constructive ways.)
Hmm, LOL . . . hadn't intended such a complicated reply. So in short Brinty, yeah, it bugs me, too.