English language - where is it going to? AIBU

It’s evolving. I used to teach English in Istanbul. I find some of it a useful different way to say something...

A little off track but the word that really gets to me is ‘empower’. It’s so over-used.

Absolutely

I hate it when people making a request on the radio ask for a "Shaht aht"

I have posted this before, but it bears repeating - at my GP’s surgery, there is a computer screen on which you sign in.
It says ‘Arrive me’ ...

upcoming instead of forthcoming
upcycling instead of recycling
up-levelling instead of improving or even upgrading

TwinLolly

Chewbacca and Galaxy you are right about swearing replacing good English words! I can't stand that either.

Dad always used to say to colleagues who swore, to express themselves in better English! ???

Most of the swear words I know are good examples of very old English

I don’t mind the evolution, or swearing as long as it’s not noun, verb and adjective in the same sentence. ixion bad can also mean great or excellent, as in ‘bad shirt man’

The modern day apology -
"My bad"
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I agree that language does evolve over time but we seems to have a huge influx of "uglies". Why on earth do we meet "with" people and not, simply, meet them. Normalcy, overly (yuck!) "like" as punctuation, the list goes on and on. Apparently, one "can "gift" land but it has turned into gifting and gifted for presents. Gift is not a verb. I do hate it when other words are used instead of verbs.

I have no problem with swearing twinlolly.

Chewbacca and Galaxy you are right about swearing replacing good English words! I can't stand that either.

Dad always used to say to colleagues who swore, to express themselves in better English! ???

I really like 'super' as an alternative to 'very'.

Co-worker is not as bad as without the hyphen which is like dairy.

The only word (apart from swearing) that really winds me up is ‘awesome’ it makes me want to run out of the room.
Overreacting?
Probably.

I think the studies show that swearing has absolutely no correlation with intelligence from what I remember.

The English language has always evolved and always will. Whilst there are some phrases that irritate me, (such as saying myself, instead of I) I quite like to see a wider vocabulary being used; it enables greater articulacy. Anything is better than interspersing a conversation with effing and blinding simply because the user is too dumb to articulate themsleves any better!