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American English is slowly becoming simplified. For example, they accept the spelling of nite as night. "Real" is accepted as an adverb as well as "really".
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Some gradual simplification may be occurring, but I would disagree with both of the examples you gave.
There is big a difference between "formal" English and "casual" or "slang" English. Teenagers sending text messages on their cell phones or over the Internet use about the most degenerate form of written English commonly used by native speakers. However, in any context in which they want to be taken seriously, they either shape up, or come off as ignorant/uneducated. They can flip the switch on and off depending on the context.
Using "real" instead of "really" in conversation is recognized as a (quaint and very often ironic) colloquialism by the majority of Americans.