It still goes on

People have NO idea of the words they use. They hear them - they use them, with no thought of derivation and meaning. Illiteracy is becoming the norm with articulate, thinking individuals. What they say is interesting, but they cannot spell or punctuate.
People continue to "loose" things rather than "lose" them. They have no idea what to do with the apostrophe (they would probably bin it, if allowed).
Another example, a recent poster on an IT forum has invented the new word "boulderdash"! He heard the word "balderdash", presumably, and then invented a supposedly sensible spelling.
Other people, eg sportscaster, misuse words by diminishing them. For example, if they are a few players milling about on a football field with aggrieved expressions, this is referred to as "carnage out there".
Save the English language before it dies!!