Amidst all the hilarity you/we are missing the sea change.
If you are over roughly 24 or so you can't see it happening. But the prepubescents to roughly early 20's live in a different world than you and me.
Yes, they speak everyday english around you and me - because they have to, for now - but between themselves they have different norms, different conventions, and even a different language within our language. It goes way beyond the teenage slang you and I grew up with - and no longer use..
The ubiquity of the net and their electronic gadgets have allowed them to create, not a shadow government, but a shadow society. A new order. It has happened at blinding speed. From roughly the middle 90's to now (about twenty years) And when they take control over this world, about another twenty years, the road signs will start to become all but incomprehensible to you and me. The comedians on late night TV will seem to speak in gibberish. Employers will find that their new employees will decide on the working conditions - and he will find that if he doesn't go along, with a few keystrokes the rejected applicants will have no one offering to work for him, period.
In 50 years the way you and I speak/write - and the road signs - will be like reading Shakespeare in the original Elizabethan English. Try it. Only about every 4th word is comprehensible. Most changes in the way societies think and structure daily life are slow and imperceptible to those living right then (other than losing a war). But this one is right in your face - if you bother to look up and see.
