Next thing you know they'll be thinking cleofan and clifian are the some word.

No danger there. The rule for peeves is that everything wrong with language is of a recent origin. At least some time after the primal event of the peever's being corrected by Miss Thistlebottom.

It's a well known truism that the Romans invented txting (link and link). Latin changed, but I don't know anybody who say that Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Romanian are "worse" than Latin. (OK, I do know people who say that Italian is just corrupt Latin, but they're talking about something else.)

Ceci n'est pas un seing.