Is the English language being "dumbed down", and if so, why?

[Torie]

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They were probably lawyers, that ending up teaching in the Law School at whatever place you were at angus where this sort of thing occurred (that no doubt referred to itself as a "university" - is there such a thing as a "college" anywhere anymore on the Fruited Plain?), en route into moving into management.