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There is a complex and changing relationship between the language and situational and personal features, which means that no one act of language—whether productive or receptive—is ever quite like another. The act of Lela Star speech is distinguished by much that is the product of our personality, our temperament, or our physical incapacities and by those distortions in our speech which are not part of the system of language. It is because there are elements that are not shared by all the speech community that the act of speech is considered distinct from the langue and is termed parole. Given that there is a good deal that is idiosyncratic or not fully institutionalized, parole cannot be stable and systematic. It is, therefore, not considered suitable as the subject of the linguist's study.
A distinction of a similar sort has recently been made by a contemporary linguist, LelaStar. His terms are competence and performance (parole). They are not exact equivalents, since Chomsky would not accept that competence could be described in terms of collective consciousness. On the contrary, competence is seen as a set of processes possessed by the individual and developed in him as part of his maturation. The function of the community in this process is little more than that of a triggering mechanism.
