The good points of this article:
"Literacy involves not just the ability to read and write but to comprehend. Teaching methods developed in America result in people being able to read but not comprehend words."
Very true. most people i know are completely unable to comprehend the idea of 'new' words without a dictionary. Why? The english language is built in a way that you can understand any word by just it's roots. I constantly guess what words mean, and I'm usually right. I know that's not necessarily what she meant, but it's a part of it.
"Changes in language reflect changes in society. Seemingly subtle or inconsequential changes become of qualitative significance when viewed in their sum total."
Also true. Language is practically a logical map of the culture/society, an example could be seen in Law in which it is basically a logical compilation. Also, if you think of Richard Dawkins and his talk of "memes" or "memetics" you can also see an interesting connotation.
Besides that, the words, languages and social motivations we decide to focus on imbed themselves in our subconscious. the easiest way I can explain this is that everything you do, think and believe effects you and your future-- and if it didn't why would you choose to do it? An example; a person who develops an interest in the word "Shizzle" might also gain an interest in the word "Crizzle", and later perhaps hip hop or whatever. I like ridiculous examples.
More specifically, a person who attaches themselves to stupid idealogies(or stupid language models) might find themselves adopting other equally or more stupid idealogies and performing associated stupid actions.
An interesting read on language is Alfred Korzybski who writes about "General Semantics". Also, you could consider looking up E-prime which is basically English formatted in a logical way. E-prime doesn't allow the usage of "to be" verbs. Why? Well sir, you find out!
http://www.nobeliefs.com/eprime.htm I don't endorse that link, but it seems pretty solid from the first paragraph.
Everything else was fucking stupid.
Also my kitten is having kittens.