However, recent years have witnessed a fast deterioration
of the quality of language-mastering among the young
generation, which can be ascribed to the combined impacts of
several factors: the decreased attention (decreased extent and
depth) in the theoretical study of the mother tongue at pre-university
level; the continuous decrease in the average
number and literary quality of the books that young people
read, resulting in decreased familiarity with written expression and with complex sentences; and the dominant use of
communication technologies for which short, grammatically
and logically unconnected sentences are viewed as the most
suitable options (also for cost saving purposes, e.g., on sending
SMS).