An individual or a group of individuals can actually maintain a certain quality of language and usage for a special amount of timeas long as they continuously use a particular level of vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Language changes over time, in general and within individuals through life. If somebody's job or education requires, for example, the usage of complex language features, then it is likely that the person will perpetuate such characteristics.
Joby realized that in spite of his fears he must be the drummer boy. At the end of the story, “Joby swallowed, wiped his eyes and cleared his throat, he settled himself.
