Personally, I am associated with several speech communities. First and foremost, there is the student speech community that I share with peers in the same age range as me studying at the university level (not just limited to MSU, as friends from other colleges share some of the same speech as well). However, within the MSU student community, there are more specific references, abbreviations, and slang that we share based on our familiarity and immersion in campus life, East Lansing, and academic references as well. For instance, P.T's refers to the bar, 'Rama = the special at the Riv, StuInfo refers to the MSU hub where all of our information is stored. The ways in which I can speak with a fellow student differ from conventional speech because this speech is informal, short, and many words are omitted when asking someone if they're going to X place later. I wouldn't say "Dubs?" to, say, my parents because a) they aren't familiar enough with the East Lansing area to know that this is a type of food found at Menna's and that the question mark is actually indicating the rest of the question "Would you like to get dubs for dinner this evening?". Age and geographical place make this speech intelligible to a select community of people.Another speech community that I participate in is amongcoworkers at my job. This speechvaries butleans toward extremely proper and professional, as we are in the eye of thousands of patrons while working. Abbreviations are never used, rather, our speech is clear and distinct over radio communication and is exact to what is going on in the situation. We refer to particular locations in the building by "left" or "right" X and use words such as "vestibule", "continental", and "house" to refer to the seats in the theater. These terms may confuse people if they were used out of context.Thelinguistic repertoire involved in these speech communities is different but they each serve a purpose. Among peers at MSU, I can communicate effectively without using a lot of words or worrying about proper phrasing. It's more of an understood neglect of proper grammar in order to save time. If not used appropriately, or out of the speech community, this language might seem rude, simple, and unintelligent. However, at work where I have to be exact in speech with coworkers in order to be effective at my job, the language serves to clarify and distinguish various situations and give a good, intelligent representation of my status as an MSU student with an on-campus job.As far as dialects go, I think that I spokefairly straightforward, standard English like what they use as a standard for news anchors. However, I worked in Florida for part of a year and got accustomed to saying y'all and "finna" as time savers, and because I was surrounded by people who had such heavy accents. (Most of my coworkers were from Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri). Now I notice that I overemphasize my "o"s and kind of drag them out a bit, as well. For instance, "so" is not as succinct as I used to say it and now it's more like "sew". I have not noticed any of the Northern Cities Shift in my speech as indicated by the YouTube example, though.