The ratio of MSA to colloquial varieties depends on the speaker, the topic, and the situation - amongst other factors.

While intensifiers similar to hella exist in many colloquial varieties, hella is unique in its flexibility.

The pronunciation of the vowels differs from speaker to speaker, in a way that tends to echo the pronunciation of the corresponding colloquial variety.

It is somewhat like pronouncing all words as if they were in pausal position (with influence from the colloquial varieties).

If this produces a sequence of three consonants, then one of the following happens, depending on the speaker's native colloquial variety:

Remarkably, while the use of subjunctive is weakening in many colloquial varieties of Italian, Venetian subjunctive seems to be more resisting.

It is a null subject language, with a tendency to drop object pronouns as well, in colloquial varieties.

The genitive case is widely avoided in most colloquial and dialectal varieties of German.

The above system is mostly unchanged in the colloquial varieties, other than the loss of the dual forms and (for most varieties) of the feminine plural.

Sumerian words adapted into Akkadian were sometimes of the eme-sal variety, so that it may have been the more colloquial variety.