With 50 years experience as an editor, my job has always been to correct errors in the language's use, an almost impossible job these days, given that one misuse will spread rapidly, thanks to the likes of Twitter: the next one knows, "multiple" has replaced "some", "many", "a few" "several". Stemming that tide proves impossible, even when a college perfessor (sic) uses, "I felt kind of sad."
What is sad about this is that we have more and more umbrella words, like "awesome", that replace shades of meaning. The English teacher is criticized for strangling pupils' right to self-expression, for not allowing our "living" language to be expressed whatever way they wish to express it,
As Mencken said, The barbarians are among us."