My peers and I speak different language from our parents' generation. One of the differences is we often speak new words as time goes by. People in our parents' generation may see and hear the new words many times, but they don't like to know them and use them even they hope their children don't use them either. Some people of my parents' generation think that the new words can't be called as language at all. For example, in Beijing, it's very often to hear young people say "ju" when they describe something. To us, "ju" has the same meaning as "very", "a lot" and "super". People at my parents age don't agree with that, because they think "ju" only means huge in Chinese. Life experiences, education they got, rules they learned make them more likely to obey traditions.
The language I use in formal situations is different from the language I use in less formal ones. Formal situations are always serious to me, so language I use there is staid. For instance, in the USA, I'd like to use "please", "Mr", "Ms", "Miss", when I in a formal situation such as an important meeting or conversation. Besides, I may change the way of speaking when I'm talking. For example, I prefer to use "some" and "many" instead of "a lot", "yes" instead of "yep", ect. If I am in an informal situation such as my friend's home, I prefer to use slang such as "yep" and "yah" during the conversation with my friend. There are no exactly rules to warn me what kind of language I should use in what situations. I believe that the language I use depends on the atmosphere of the situation. I just speak differently according to my sense and experience. It's spontaneous.
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