Good English cannot be reduced to ‘txt spk’

PASSING a third-level college, I was bemused and, contrarily, depressed to see their sign announcing themselves as a ‘collage’.

Never mind the lack of an apostrophe in their name (I’m not wishing for the moon here), it’s the fact that an educational establishment expects people to pay serious money to be taught there. It really is the last straw.

In a world becoming dominated by ‘txt spk’ more and more, and in a climate where grammar is seen as uncool and unnecessary, the English language is being pushed into incoherent oblivion.