Talk:Trigedasleng (language)/@comment-68.184.81.151-20141217144627

The real question is not whethere or not the language could have morphed in 3 generations, but whether or not a post nuclear apocalyptic world population would have the same life span as those on the ARK. I highly doubt that they would have anywhere near as long a lifespan considering they would have been subject to cold, little or no medicine, and other harsh conditions that would have lowered the life span on many peoples. It is only recently (last 500 years roughly) that humans have even thought about living past 45 years of age, and that has more to do with the fact that humans were able to come into larger populations that could then pool resources and specialize in certain areas than anything else. Post apocalypse the people would have a harder time surviving due to radiation morphing plants and animals generation by generation. In essence, the assumption that grounders only went through 3 generations in the same amount of time as a technilogical group of "quarinteened" people is almost laughable. They most likely would have gone through more generations and at a quicker rate due to not only a harsh enviroment radioactively, bacterial, and weather wise, but also other human predation (reapers).