Differences about launguage using in varied situation

I never take a second thought about significances of conversations until I read "Mother Tongue "by Amy Tan. Indeed, we automatically adjust our ways of speaking and use different words while we switch our talking partners. I flashback about conversations I had with friends, parents and faculties in school, some differences surely exist among them.

My friends always go to my horse to sleepover. We have dinner and play games together. During the dinner, my parents and my friends sit around the table . I will say some words that I will never use in an essay in a causal talking with my peers. We talk about the latest release ps3 games, about Phillies baseball and all the kind of pop news, even rap out some Lil Wayne's. But I observe that my parents have been ignored. Therefore I withdraw myself to their concerns and it somehow become kind of serious. I have to ask them about their daily works to see if everything is going on well. You definitely don't expect use a high, excited tone to talk about topics like that. I have to calm down my tone a little bit. Meanwhile, it's a tradition to show respects to elder people. I never talk to my parents with discourteousness as I am taught to be polite like everyone else is. It is also similar in a formal situation. In a formal situation, I will keep my voice down since it is rude to talk aloud in a formal meeting, conference or convocation. And some more academic vocabularies must been used in this situation to impress listeners. In the contrast, I think no one will speaker like a british-style gentleman in a less formal or even causal situation. No expatiatory sentences or complicated grammars will appear in a less formal conversation. It's even fun to have some grammatical mistakes. The people you are talking to in this situation will not be the one who grades you test.

It is interesting that there are differences of conversation in varied situations. These differences are not easy for people to realize. And people somehow have tendencies to speak in different ways while they encounter different things.