 Typically, the non-English speaker also strips English phrases of linguistic markings that are definite articles or certain verb tenses.In some communities, young people may intentionally adopt versions of the English language that older people consider to be broken English.This has been documented, for example, among the Māori of New Zealand, where the younger generation was more proficient in English than the previous generation, but intentionally made modifications to the language to assert their own sense of cultural identity.