my idiolecy

One aspect that stands out to be the utmost dominant in the means of varying my idiolect is social networking. Abbreviations like “LOL” and “ROFL” appear to be making their way into everyday teenager dialects around the world including mine. I have noticed that I currently use “LOL” often to let others recognise when I find something humorous. What I perceive from this is that I only use this abbreviation around my friends primarily because of the formal and informal parting of my idiolect between my friends and people like my teachers and parents. I think I do this because I consider using informal words with an audience I’m generally formal with, strange and unfamiliar. I also believe I do this because I expect an audience of that kind to object to it since teenage slang is most frequently thought as discourteous and lethargic
As a teenager myself, I feel that media has played a strong part in influencing , especially by the internet and TV. Habitually slang words such as "OMG, peng, lol, fam and convo" etc ,are commonly used on social network sites like Face book, Twitter etc..; this is becoming a vast growing trend . Whilst I was growing up, TV has had big influence on me and it still is today as it is portrayed in American programmes such as family guy and jersey shore and so on. This has had an impact on my idiolect as changing my accent and the usage of Americanism in my vocabulary is my own way to accomplish this but is edging towards sociolect.

Having spent my life seeing different type of people, I have formed many of my own distinctive dialects that have been adapted and influenced by the media, my family and friends; and in addition have learnt to use diverse styles of spoken language to “fit in” with others depending on who they are, this implicates that the way I speak is based on the purpose of the context of what I will say. Furthermore, another inquiry that arises is what are other’s attitudes towards some of the characteristics of mine and