Even if I feel American English is a most degenerated form of a once-noble language doesn't mean everyone agree with me 
In agreement or not, with or without emoticons, this seems an entirely unnecessary, and counterproductive sentence.
Language evolves to suit the needs of its users. If at a point in time in the future it is decided that there is no benefit in continuing use of the "ph" in "phone", and that clarity or speed would be gained through substitution of an "f", then this is what will happen. The linguist Wilson Follett wrote in his book
Modern American Usage:
They are the professional linguists, who deny that there is such a thing as correctness. The language, they say, is what anybody and everybody speaks. Hence there must be no interference with what they regard as a product of nature; they denounce all attempts at guiding choice; their governing principle is epitomized in the title of a speech by a distinguished member of the profession: "Can Native Speakers of a Language Make Mistakes?" (A. W. Read, Abstract for the Linguistic Society of America Meeting, Dec. 28-29, 1964).
There exist many style guides for writing. Anyone who has ever composed a research paper for a university assignment has encountered this. What is the need for a style guide? Does this mean Strunk and White is correct while others such as Kate Turabian, the MLA, and the Associated Press Style Guide are not? Style and "correctness" are two different things. For example, anyone who has read James Joyce knows his writing is vastly different than that of Salman Rushdie or David Sedaris. Does this make one correct and the other not? Of course not. Their style is how each conveys feeling, sets tone, creates flow. Their choice of certain words over others, including spellings, helps create a unique identity. All equally valid, all equally correct. Some styles are more accepted than others as their conditions dictate (an example being instant-messaging versus university thesis papers.)
Spanish as spoken in Spain differs from Spanish as it is practiced in Puerto Rico, Mexico, or Spanish Harlem. Language is a natural occurrence. "To the linguists change is the only ruler to be obeyed." The form writing takes in instant-messaging serves a different function than that of posted messages, than that of composed email, internet articles, books, magazines, and so on. As a member of the publishing profession, this is practically my mantra. The appreciation for the differences from form to form, language to language, culture to culture is part of what makes international communication possible. Similarly, the extension of this appreciation through interactions via the internet can only serve to improve communication here at warhammer-empire.com, and through the web as a whole.
I neither speak nor write a degenerate or ignoble language, nor would I presume this of my neighbors at this forum. It's a rather yucky presumption to make, yes?
Marcus
