A structural linguist is more interested in the language people speak in a given speech community today than in general, historical patterns of speech. This statement is not true. A structural linguist is interested in the building blocks and components that make up a language. A structural linguist also looks as language as a static system of interconnected units. Some modern linguists believe that structural linguistics is outdated. Language is not static. It ebbs and flows as people's circumstances and our society changes.