New generations have been betrayed these 50 years past by the pedagogical ideologues who considered that English could be osmosed subliminally. English has therefore been barely—if at all—taught, despite that even the most subliterate opponent of the notions of vocabulary and syntax will believe that the computer 'languages' modelled after human language necessitate absolute rigidity in such properties.
Perhaps your mentor was tacitly recognizing that English is now in an analogous state to that of Latin when the 'Romance' languages derived from it began to arise, and therefore less dependent on formal classifications. It is already quite apparent that there are a dozen-or-more forms of English extant, even excluding such unfortunate current manifestations as Chinglish and such obscenities as Leet.
Or, while intending no offence, could it be believed that it was the receiver rather than the transmitter that was misaligned during that quoted broadcast?
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