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I'm somewhat informed on gendered speech in Japanese, however, I have also
heard that age may play a part in which pronouns and sentence ending particles
you use and can get away with. For instance, a teenage boy is more likely to
get away with using slightly effeminate language than a grown man would be.
What sort of pronouns (私, 俺, 僕, est.) and sentence ending particles (の, か,
かしら, わ, よ, ぞ) would a typical elderly male use (In the standard Tokyo
dialect)?
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Which personal pronouns and sentence ending particles would an old man use?
That depends on age, dialect, personal preferences etc. But a very
stereotypical way would be to use わし as first person singular personal pronoun
and じゃ as copula.
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I think old men are more likely to use `だい` in place of sentence-final `だ`, or
`かい` for sentence-final `か`.
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This is not really an answer, but I would like to draw the attention to the
distinction between speech in fictional work and speech in the real world.

In fictional work, there is a set of words (most notably personal pronouns and
function words) which are considered to be typical to a certain group of
people, _regardless of whether the people in the same group in the real world
actually use them_. It is called a [_role
language_](http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/jk2012/Kinsui_abstract.pdf)
([役割語](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BD%B9%E5%89%B2%E8%AA%9E)). As dainichi
explained, first-person pronoun わし and copula じゃ are part of the role language
for old male speakers. So are second-person pronoun お[主]{ぬし} and the use of
～しておる instead of ～している. However, I am pretty sure that few old male people
actually say any of these.

My guess is that old male speakers do not have particularly different words
from other adult male speakers, but I am not very sure about this part.
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