Over my analysis of my transcript I have discovered certain language habits that me and my friends use. The most common of these are omitions and idioms which occur during my transcript. One such example of this is when Deelan Chan mentions Thomas’s Dad which is a common joke in our friend circle. This is an example of an idiom as only we understand it as an insult. This shows that we are very informal in how we speak as we are friends so we can joke about such private stuff and no-one gets offended.

One example of an omission is when Thomas is answering a question from Chester and he says “lenient”. In a formal situation we would say a lenient teacher but as we are acting informal Thomas says lenient as we all understand what he is saying.

My last example is a filler word in which Chester uses by saying “uhhh”. This word has no meaning or value and is just used to buy time when people are thinking about what they should say. As we are picking up on real language and not standard English this is very common throughout the transcript.