Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.193.170.188-20170224122257/@comment-84.87.13.224-20170917122619

Hi,

Late post, I know. Thought I'd comment anyway.

An idea popped into my head while watching the show and listening to the language of the Grounders.

It sounds like children speaking sometimes, inventing words. Oversimplified and changed English.

Could it be that at some point something happened which lead to a group of young children, not older than 7 or 8, uneducated, were left to grow up without adults and learn to communicate with eachother and survive? This would explain the rapid change in language and loss of collective knowledge of science and history.

Combine that with Mount Weather working actively to keep the Grounders "down", and it seems plausible that there would be a generation of adult savages speaking a heavily bastardized language because they never learned proper English. They have children, and there you have it, a completely new "standard" language.

Just my 2 cents.