One of my pet peeves
is [FYP] people that say "I pride myself in.....". When the correct grammar is "I take pride in the fact.....". But I think the dictionary changed the word "pride" from strictly a noun to a noun and verb.
So go fuggn pride yourself!!
I'm only in my 50s, but I think people could "pride themselves" in things my whole life.
But it's interesting to literally (yes, literally) watch a rule of usage go out the window.
Faulty parallelism always seemed like a total howler to me. Then maybe in the 1980s or so, it suddenly became okay:
E.g., "So if you want value, quality, and you don't have time to waste..."
(The "faulty" part is that "want" doesn't apply to "you don't have time to waste," so you need another construction, or you have to stick an "and" between "value" and "quality," not a comma.)
One construction that's harmless enough, but that I have
literally watched become mainstream in spoken English in the last 10 years, is beginning an interview response with "so":
Q: What gave you the idea for this invention?
A: So I was looking at the floor-plans of my new house, and I realized that the bathroom was in the wrong place... (etc.)
The "So" begins so many responses on talk shows and the like that it seems like it's always been there. But I swear I remember a time when it wasn't.