Harvard dean says students these days regularly fail to understand basic sentences from texts more than a century old - https://notthebee.com/article/harvard-dean-says-students-these-days-regularly-fail-to-understand-basic-sentences-from-texts-more-than-a-century-old

This sheer ineptitude, this dearth of linguistic prowess among native English speakers today, merely reinforces the warnings of generations past... As language goes, so too does your civilization.