To wonder why adverbs are disappearing?

[Sittingontopoftheworld]

‘He sings amazing.’
‘I eat healthy.’
‘He did really good in the challenge.’

Dear god, where have all the adverbs gone? Drives me nuts! If I pull my teen DC up on it, they roll their eyes and can’t accept they’re saying anything wrong. Surely they are not disappearing for good? I like adverbs!

I’ve stayed in the house where Chaucer wrote some of the Canterbury Tales. And been in the Church where the ‘Wife of Bath’ was married.

The one that makes me cringe is cringe itself.

It was so cringe.

Awful, just awful. Cringe or cringeworthy, please.

Cringey, even.

Oh dear.

Incandescent shadow, I don't think it's the influence of non-native-English speakers.

I suspect what has happened is that we have been suddenly exposed to the poor English of vast numbers of native English speakers who use social media, and the deluge of bad grammar has been overwhelming. There are millions of people who never read, but that doesn't stop them committing their ill-formed thoughts to the screen, sadly.

I sometimes leave a MN or FB session feeling dazed and almost unable to compose a grammatically correct sentence.

The young folk love their adverbs! I have counted up to eleven uses of ‘apparently’ and ‘actually’ in single sentences uttered by the DC. ‘Unfortunately’ is very popular too.

Not adverbs but a language one that drives me mad when I see it.

Sale prices--- up to 50%!!!!!!!

No, they're not, they're up to 100%.

If you mean Sale Prices---up to 50% off, then say so

Another one that annoys me especially when people can't see the problem is a price label 2.39p /kilo. I tried to expain to a manager at Asda that the notice meant under 3p /kilo but he couldn't understand. I will just about accept £2.39p, even though it's wrong.

"It fit me" is a perfectly appropriate and acceptable past simple or past participle of the verb to fit in N. American English.

It's not new, unlike the slipping of adverbs.

I found this website after my hubby and I were discussing the disappearing adverb. I was really enjoying reading the like-minded points of view and suddenly it was “the Americans’ fault.” As an American, I resent the implication that all of us over here are ignorant. Please, kindly, stay on topic. Thank you.