... that they are somehow doing something that has never been done before -- which, in fact, is rarely the case.

>> It is evolution.

That it is -- and it has been going on for a LONG, LONG time!

>> Many of us are now able to communicate free of the bonds and restraints
>> imposed upon us by antiquated rules of grammar and construction.

Any truly antiquated rule will always pass from use when it has outlived its usefulness.

>> Of course it is the younger generation who have
>>truly developed freedom to communicate ...

In my experience, most of what passes for "freedom to communicate" can more accurately be described as too lazy, stupid or arrogant to learn how to use the language correctly (and therefore more effectively).

>> ... for they have not only overthrown the dictototial ...

"Dictototial"??? I take it that's an example of one of those "spontaneously created new words" you are referring to:

>> ... regime of grammar, but they have overcome the actual rules
>> of language. That is to say that they spontaneously
>> create new words where none had existed before and alter the
>> meanings of words which we long believed to be immutable.

And therein lies the conceit referred to in my heading!

----- jim o\-S