Bad language blues

Re: “Brain impact” and “Laughing at Lotus’s”, (PostBag, Oct 9).

It’s nice to know that I’m not the only old goat who monitors the long, slow slide of the English language (the language of Milton and Shakespeare!) into anarchy, chaos, and despair.

But hold! The Bangkok Post, hitherto a bastion of chaste usage, facilitates this tragedy by permitting the ghastly neologism “themself” in the latest offering by Jason Jellison: “Any interested reader can pull the raw data themself”, in “Bigoted over blood”, (PostBag, Oct 9).

YE OLDE PEDANT