Linguist james milroy notes that people have been complaining about the supposed decline in english for centuries.every generation,without exception,has believed that young people are destroying the language.And you can bet your bottom dollar that when today's teenagers become tomorrow's parents, they too will accuse their children of ruining the language.milroy argues that there is no evidence that young people have any defiency in their language in comparison with previous generations.From a linguist's point of view,anguages do not and cannot become "corrupted" they simply change to meet the needs of each new generation.