Speech styles and language means

Some units of the language are used freely in all styles: words such as non (bread), daraxt (tree), bormoq (to go), yozmoq (to write), yangi (new), yaxshi (good), yil (year). Such units are called stylistically neutral and make up the greater part of the language. Other units are tied mostly to one style: terms in a scientific text, set phrases in an official text, interjections and short forms in conversation are such means. A person who builds speech must know which style a unit belongs to, otherwise the text does not fit its content. Marking also concerns the form of speech: words like «yuqorida aytilganidek» (“as said above”) and «quyidagi jadvalda» (“in the table below”) are typical of written text, while in live speech at a meeting they sound stiff and artificial.