Well said Suibhne. It is discrimination against my generation. Younger people today speak and text in "Their Lingo". My generation is going to change a lot of this stuffy old stiff upper lip crap. People like Gervase should find one of the "Classics" from three hundred years ago and go read it all alone in some dusty room. What is his point anyway ? is he one of these "Pure British in body,mind and soul ? And by pen and word of course !

It's the 21st century out there guys, not the middle ages. We write,speak,text and think for ourselves.