TITB..... (or This is today's blog!)

Am I getting too old or is the English language disappearing rapidly to be replaced by abbreviations, estuary speak, slang and other mixtures? Even the BBC is guilty of dumbing down especially on some of the programmes aimed at children. I know the country is becoming a big melting pot (some would call it 'cosmopolitan') but either way, I do not see why we should let our standards slip.
On the main BBC news on Radio 4 during the Today programme this morning, they had a report from Afghanistan where Gordon Brown (you know, the geezer wot is supposed to be in charge of running the country innit) was speaking about IED's (or was it IUD's) and he mentioned these at least half a dozen times. Now any normal person who is unfamliar with army speak would not have a clue what he was talking about and wonder why he was suddenly speaking about birth control devices in Afghanistan!
We had the same problem with his predecessor, Tony Blair who was forever banging on about Saddam's WMD's that he had supposedly hidden from the inspectors. Now at that time I was unsure as to whether a WMD was some kind of STD because Saddam had hidden it from the inspectors! After all, if you had one you wouldn't want everyone to know what you'd been up to would you?
I worked for the DWP (there goes another one) for seven years and they have them like measles (abbreviations that is) and the normal language of the department is also stuffed to bursting with acronyms which were regularly wheeled out during 'team meetings' and training sessions. Right from day one I came across these things, usually during the course of normal conversation and I didn't have a clue what people were talking about. All I did was inerject with knowing noises because there is a part of my brain that is programmed to switch off if people can't be bothered to express themselves with proper words. Goodness knows, there are enough of them in the language to serve any purpose, even I have been known to use some of the more colourful ones on the odd occasion! Anyway, not knowing what these abbreviations meant did not detract in any way from how I did my job, which I was very good at, so I can't see the point of using them. Perhaps it's a smoke screen which is designed to make the people that use them appear to be either very smart or very pretentious and I know which I would choose.
Talking of getting old, I went to see my GP this morning, is he really old enough to be out without his Mum?!!