Destruction of the english language on the internet.

[countrymath]

Oh yeah, he's flippin' awesome!!!!!!!!  I must go play Last Date now, but first I'm gonna go post a video of myself trying to play and prepare myself for Piano Idol.

Yup. I play contry music too, thats why my name is Countrymath =p

Check this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Country-Piano-Leonard-Keyboard-Style/dp/0634067095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305110602&sr=8-1

[tb230]

I agree that English is suffering more than most languages, simply because it is unusually widely used in www-space. But funny abbreviations and emoticons don't bother me: what I find annoying or depressing (depending on the mood I'm in) is the kind of mistake that shows people have no idea how words work and what they mean. Bad punctuation is the most obvious example of this - mixing up your and you're, for instance, and inserting random apostrophes in words that don't need them. And things like the mistake made a few times in this thread, confusing the word 'acronym' with 'abbreviation'. USA isn't an acronym.

Not sure if English is any worse off than other languages. Increasing use of the web forces English into other languages, particularly minority ones, and a lot of young people have started using a 'hybrid' language on the web and while texting/twittering/twattering. Spelling and grammar also reflect this mixing.   

[ongaku_oniko]

Yeah, you just don't know enough about other languages to say that.

For example, Chinese internet is littered with random slang too.

like 囧. Or 给力 (pronounced "gei li"give power, but really bad grammar, an internet meme), among many, many others.

Always using words that don't make since like 河蟹 to mean harmony (it means river crab, but it sounds like harmony)