Speech.

don't know who I stole this from...but I haven't read this book yet.

"Communications must destroy localness, by a slow, inevitable
process [...] Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps
better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and
baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty,
is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one
speech [...] What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I
regret its loss nevertheless" (106-107)

Travels with Charley- Steinbeck