Is anyone else disappointed by declining standards in spoken English in Britain?

To clear up man dem and dench - man dem comes from Jamaica where they used 'dem' to pluralise and DENCH is something I see on twitter, popularised by Lethal B (rapper) and Emanuel Frimpong (footballer) which I'm yet to fully understand

Can you reconcile your antithetical positions?

Yes, I am disappointed, and worried about these falling standards, both spoken and written. It's America's influence firstly and foremostly I think, taking our language (as they have not got one of their own which they detest, may I point out!!) and murdering it. Combine Indians and Asians (in particular, though they are not alone in language barriers here,) speaking with heavy accents, making what they are saying impossible to understand, which is dreadful as I work in a supermarket and I can hardly understand about 10% of what my customers are trying to ask me!!

Another factor is an ever-increasing influx of immigrants who can either not speak English, or who only speak it badly. This all leads to worryingly falling standards.

Fillers such as "you know" hack me off - no, I DON'T know what you want to say, that's why I am waiting for you to tell me, you twit!! "Like" as well is another one. And "she went" - WHERE did she go? NOT what she said, that is dreadful grammar!!

Plus it is worrying the rising number of children leaving secondary school who are all but completely illiterate and worries rise - most likely they won't be able to get a job (particularly in this current economic climate,) so us, the taxpayers in years to come, will have to fund them living on the dole.

Explains your lack of knowledge of this particular form of "language" and the customary behaviour of it's speakers.

London's just a barrel of laughs for rich people. Like some kind of urban safari I imagine. Different if you have to live with the ****ers.

Is it just me or does lethal b have a speech impediment and acts pretty retarded?

What is your view on people who don't know how to use possessive apostrophes properly?

pm me love. it's not relevant to this thread. missed you btw.

acts pretty hilarious on youtube

Disinterested. Maybe if they start mugging old grannies I'll get interested. lol.

How is it not relevant? It's a direct and pertinent response to what you said. Reconcile your antithetical positions: do you want communication to be with the intention of conveying information in the simplest way possible or via the use of erudite language, despite it being '[needless]'?

So it's not the non-standard use of the English language that concerns you?

erm, somewhere in the middle in a standard non formal setting. Obviously using needlessly verbose vocabulary simply hinders communication as it is cumbersome. Conversely, it's best not to sound like you've got mental dench problems. lol.

All of which is relative. They have conveyed the information necessary in the most natural way possible given the situation. Why do you want them to actively moderate their language to ensure eavesdroppers understand them?

Evidently it is a mix of the two factors. The fact that jafaican speakers tend to have a remarkably small vocabulary

Well put it this way, the way people speak English has always been changing and will change in the future. There seems to be less of that "clean" traditional British accent around, but some regional accents I find okay, they don't bother me.
However the accents in the North West really bother me, well, in some places around the area where I live anyway. It's just lazy English, some people don't pronounce words properly by missing out letter, such as the "t" in "but" and do it constantly, over and over again and it's just sloppy English that gets to a point that it just bothers you. If you was in the area I'm at you'd know what I'm talking about..

I'm disappointed more in the moral decline in my age group through. Teens.....ugh. So little respect from many of them...

You don't know the extent of their vocabulary at all. People change their vocabularies depending on the circumstance.

So, per se, it isn't the non-standard use of English that concerns you?

Irrelevant.

You fail to understand that the people that speak like this cannot easily modify their method of speech. I can still hear the lahk as opposed to like etc. It just makes you look like a knuckle dragger.