I love that ulster scots language I have had many a foreign Irish asking me to translate it

I can only find one thing wrong with the sentence, maybe there should be a comma after languages, otherwise it's perfect IMO. I'm interested to know why you would say there are other mistakes?

You could re-write it to make it more formal I suppose:

As for languages, I am truly disgusted by the quality of written and spoken English among today's youth. I'm more worried about loss of standards in schools than I am about English turning in to slang.

But really there's nothing wrong with the first sentence in an informal environment.

This TED talk is very pertinent to the original topic (and it's awesome) a very strong case for saving dying languages:
http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_ ... tures.html

"The 20th century, a hundred years from now, is not going to be remembered for its wars or its technological innovations, but rather as the era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet."

This reminds me of the whole Alan Turing apology thing. The English may have suppressed the language, but that was the English decades ago, not us now. Should we defend/rectify the actions of our past when we (us living now) had nothing to little to do with it?

Anybody seen the David Mitchell's Soapbox episode about Gaelic (Series 1, Episode 19)? It's about this very subject.

But then you look at places like Finland, for example, which was under the control of both Russia and Sweden and yet Finnish is the majority tongue.

And look at Wales, Welsh is still spoken, my cousins were taught in a Welsh speaking school but the language will only stay alive if it's people wish it so.

How would you blame the English anyway? Who were the "English" at the time and who are they now?

As for the language, it has to evolve and change otherwise it no longer remains a useable tool for the change within human society. I mean English even had gender at one time, we lost that as we don't need it. Although for some reason I do like referring to a ship or the sea as "she".

In a word, NO.