The formal conversation between the teenagers in the Apprentice (extract A) contrasts between formal (throughout the beginning) and informal towards the end

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The way in which we speak and the way in which we write are so different from each other that you could say it's a completely new language and it would arguably be true, There are many reasons which may cause the change in the way we speak but I would like to point out teenagers in this essay. There are a lot of factors which may cause the change in the way teenagers. Each person has their  own idiolect. Idiolect defines to the meaning of "a personal language. In a dictionary you may find that idiolect is "a personal language; the words people choose and any other features that characterise their speech ". The subject I would like to bring up is the impact of various factors on the way teenagers speak. I believe that the various amounts of new technology being produced and used is of big importance when it comes to the way we speak. As humans are lazy by nature, they go a step further and try to make a world easier so they speak the way they want to speak. Teens are so used to their lives revolving around laziness and "computer speak" that it's hard for them to adapt to modern standard English, this is mostly due to the fact that they are used to speaking with abbreviations on the social networking sites such as face book, this has a great impact because the teenagers are so used to saying what they usually say online that they forget and start speaking slang with their friends and eventually start speaking this way to adults, however some of us have the ability to adapt our language to whoever we are speaking to, which is of course a great thing but not many people know how to do this.

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People alter the way in which they speak to suit the place, people or situation that they are in, one example is teenagers, teens change the way they speak and the words that they use for example when teens are in a situation such as being on a TV show such as the Junior apprentice they change the way they speak in terms of tone and standard, for example some teens refer to Standard English language to speak when in an important place which is the pure English language with no slang or abbreviations, this is when they want to ...

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