Board Thread:Show-Related Questions/@comment-26151672-20150227125834/@comment-25869525-20150327024031

" I really feel like each nation would be adamant in teaching their descendants their native language (to keep their culture alive in the event that they return to Earth, I would think),:" - It's possible that happened with the first generation born after the Big War. But, maybe over the second or thrid generation, peope lost interest, maybe seeing no need. Also, it's probable people did not stay with "their own" when it came to having children. The young folk are all third generation. That means two parents, four grandparents, and eight great grandparents that would have been born on Earth. So in theory, any of these young people could have roots tracing to eight different nations. That would be a lot of languages to learn, all with seeing little need for them. Let us assume that first generation born aboard the Ark al stayed within their own nationality. That reduces it to four potential nationalities. That may be a bit easier, but still, they see little or no need to know these languages, being so certain there is nobody left alive on the ground. Why learn a language if there is nobody to speak it with?

"Though I find it odd that they (Grounders) haven't developed at least a little bit of an accent considering Trigedasleng is their primary language and that has more of a creole sound." - Yes. This makes perfect sense. They should sound not so "textbook" in their pronunciation of English words.