But my collaborator, Robin Queen, a sociolinguist, who studies how language use varies across social groups, is not annoyed by those errors at all.

An “idiolect,” explains sociolinguist Jennifer Sclafani, is “not the language of idiots, but an idiosyncratic form of language that is unique to an individual.”

Sociolinguist Atlas of Latin America said 71 percent of the people in Ecuador's highlands are indigenous while 90 percent are in Bolivia.