Talk:Bob Morley/@comment-25176701-20150104025348/@comment-25869525-20150116021357

You are probably right about them talking like Americans because of it being a US made show. But, many shows on the global market are made in the USA and due to various factors unrelated to television, the American dialect has become globally known, so people in most nations are at least familiar with it. (Simply, it's just "easier" for the makers of the show to have them sound like us.)

Really, I think with the 12 stations coming together, each from a different nation, what really would happen if something like this were to actually happen, is eventually an accent unique to the Ark would have developed, maybe even a creolized "Ark language" cold have developed, using elements from all the languages used by the 12 nations. But, with English being more or less, the 'lingua franca' in the real world, for commerce, science, and many other things, it would stand to reason any language developing on the Ark would be strongly rooted in English. Still, I think realistically, they should have incorporated some foreign terms into the vocabulary. But then, they'd need to subtitle Ark people talking like they do with Grounders.