Does English Make Sense?

      A friend is walking in the hallway in school and sees another friend. The typical teenager interaction at this point would be the phrase “What’s up?”, resulting in an answer “nothing much”. Another situation, probably the worst one yet, is “How are you?”. I guarantee that ninety-nine percent of the times the answer will be a plain old good. But wait, there’s more…. How about the phrase “How’s your day been?” or a typical mom question: “How was school today?”
The first problem is that some of the questions themselves don’t make any sense. Take, for example, “What’s up?”. Literally, it turns into “What is up?” I would say that the sky or the ceiling are good answers, depending on where a person is located. And the response “good” doesn't make a whole lot of sense either. One can't just say that he/she is good. This would mean that they are the physical embodiment of good (but nobody’s perfect). A more appropriate answer would be “I’m well”, but this phrase is disappearing as well.
As for the rest, they have been transformed into robotic scripts. Society uses them as their bases of social interaction, which is somewhat pathetic. Most people would even be surprised to hear a different answer than good. Definitely, nobody wants to hear a tangent on how someone’s feelings changed during the day. And moms, they don't want to hear what happened every hour of their kid’s day, unless this person is still a cute first grader.
So what is happening? Society’s interactions aren't really evolving or developing in today’s world. Actually, they might as well be degrading. In my opinion, the major fault lies in texting. People are accustomed to short conversation and do not no how to interact in the real world anymore. Below are some more examples for questioning the sense of English. Can you understand them?

-Why is it when you transport stuff on a ship, it's called cargo, but when you transport it on a car, it called a shipment?
-Why isn't "palindrome" spelled the same way backwards as it is forwards?
-Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
-Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
-If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?