As I see the article, the problem is just about linguistic diversity resulted from different mother tongue spoken by people from different countries, not much about generation gap. In China, we also have the problem of generation gap. My friends and I are always bothered by the difficulty to do some relaxed and normal communication with our parents. You know two generations won't concern about the same topic. Speaking from my own experience: I live with my peers all the week in the school and communication between us is full of speaking-language which used popularly among teenagers. And when I have to listen to there boring inquirys , it just sends me to sleep and I have to pay huge amounts of patience to listen to them. At the same time, I just find it's tough for me to express my idea and passion by the way of using the language which makes me feel not comfortable and relaxed. So, with a vicious cycle, people like myself will be tired of communicating with their parents and it's the problem of different generation speakers.
As for the different languages used in formal or informal situations, it will be easier to understand. I don't think people will speak in the same way when they are responded to friends and elderships respectively. In my opinion, the use if formal or informal languages depends on the people or situation you faced . For instance, I speak slang with my friends and on the other hand, I will always try to be graceful and patient in front of my teachers. It's not kind of pretence but rather what human beings should learn to do.
These issues about languages are unavoidable. The only we can do is to protect our mother tongue, which represents our culture, our roots.
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