Impoverished communication skills are a form of disenfranchisement. Yes.

But communication skills are defined by the community in which they're applied; particular usages, styles and vocabularies define membership… and modulate trust.

We live in a diversifying society. Language is bound to fragment and diverge too. 

Education has almost always cultivated the language of the elite of the day. It is a form of deep control: languages shape and provide repertoires of thought and image. These favour some lines of thought and discourage others. Language is a form of power.

(This is why revolutionaries, having taken control, purge schools and universities of 'reactionary' teachers. It's why people write poetry and express themselves in non-linguistic ways. It's also why Canadian bigots think everyone should speak English or French, and why English and North Americans would generally like to see English adopted as THE World language rather than, say, Mandarin.)

Homogenisation of language is always resisted… so, for example, the Galicians, thd Aragonese and the Asturians don't always like speaking Spanish; in Britain, the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots, the Scottish Gaels, the Shetland Islanders, the Doric speakers of northeast Scotland, the Welsh, Manx Islanders and Northumbrians all nurture their own languages. As, on the Continent, do the Bretons, the Cypriots, the Lapps of Finland, the Chuvash (and a score of other peoples) in Russia, the Roma,  the Tyroleans and Dolomite peoples, Armenians, Albanians, Sardinians, Sicilians,Corsicans, Aeolian Islanders and Maltese…  while Picard and old Occitan survive, along with Breton in France. And as well as all those who sustain their "native" languages, there dialect differences. There are 10 recognised dialects of Sicilian!

None of this can be controlled: it's people using language the way they decide they want to or feel they must in order to be who they truly are. Despite the Internet and years of Russian overlordship (under the Tsars, before as well as during communism), Russian is being rejected all across the former Soviet empire in favour of far less internationally utilitarian and globalism-favouring little "native" languages. In Eastern Europe, there's also been the passionate throwing of of Austrain-German (of the old Hapsburg Empire) andTurkish (of the old Ottoman Empire.) Language suppression is a very nasty and deeply resented form of imperialism.

And yet, at the same time, most of the World's English speakers live in India.

So don't sweat it, Chemgal. It all just adds to the colour and interest of being a part of the human family.

I think my handwritting used to be nicer. Now I'm in too much of a hurry. I think my spelling has gotten better though, through spellcheck. 

Lol, whoops! Handwriting! 

My punctuation is especially bad since Internet communication became regular. As are some word spellings that used to come more natuarally. As long as the point comes across here, it's not such a big deal, is it? I'm not planning on doing this for a living, and it's not being marked by a teacher. I just want people to be able to understand it.

I'm not criticizing the occassional typo or anything like that.  I just find it concerning that seeing mistakes so commonly and typed not just handwritten is actually affecting my spelling.

People tend to learn to write by reading.  What if the books you read growing up had certain words spelt incorrectly 1/2 the time?  I think that's similar to how kids are currently growing up.