Slangs changing the face of English language?

On English Language Day today — which is also William Shakespeare’s birth anniversary — TOI takes a look at the changing face of the language

Author Mark Twain once famously said, “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” But are the author’s thoughts now outdated? Earlier this year, a Colombia University professor suggested that the comma be abolished, as he felt that the absence of the punctuation mark from modern text will not affect the clarity of what is written.