Reflect on Some of Your Own Personal Talk (Idiolect) Including Perhaps Some Criticism Made of It by Adults

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Reflect on some of your own personal talk (idiolect) including perhaps some criticism made of it by adults In this essay I will reflect on my own personal idiolect and I will also include criticism made by adults of the way I speak. I will include the factors which have affected the way I speak and factors which have made me who I am. The idiolect of different people vary depending on who they were they were around whilst growing up and how they were brought up. The way I speak has been changing ever I was born. The main factors that influence me and others, I believe are: family, friends and media such as the internet, TV and music. My idiolect varies depending on who I am talking to. For example, when talking to my friends or someone my own age I use basic and abbreviated words. I also use more slang and my words are less clear. When I am talking to my parents, teachers or someone older than me I tend to speak more respectfully and politely, this is the way I was bought up and taught was right. I usually don’t use slang around adults because most of them don’t understand and a vast majority hate it and think it is a bad way of speaking. When I speak to children younger than me such as my niece and nephew I use elementary language which they would be able to understand. As a teenager I feel that media has played a huge role in influencing the way most young people speak today. New slang words are always being formed on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook and in months or maybe even weeks of this happening, the word will be used by thousands of teenagers across the country. Slang like this is becoming a vast growing trend of talk amongst the youth of today. I believe that my family has had the largest impact on my idiolect. With my parents I often speak to them in my first language, Somali. This has become increasingly harder for me to do

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