The Grinch Who Stole Grammar

I’d like to know if people have always been so lax about their use of the English language or if it’s just a recent phenomenon.  My guess is that it’s more prevalent today but I don’t claim (as so many others do) to know why.  And to be sure one would really need to look over the past couple of hundred years of human communication.  Only Larry King is old enough to do that and he’ s not talking about it.  …