Language is a living thing, mutable, growing, breeding. Over 4,000 new words are added every year to the Oxford English Dictionary. Some recent examples are:
Cosplay
Frontlash
Speedrun
We don’t speak like people from the 17th or 18th centuries, and if we did, it would be regarded as quaint, if not a little weird. Verily and forsooth, I thusly declare it to be… thus!
It is only reasonable then that over the span of generations that have passed since the lunar impact event, language will have morphed into a new form. It would retain some vestiges of the modern English language, and incorporate words and terms that are commonplace to us today, but they might take on a different meaning for Scar. Also, some literary skills will have been abandoned in favour of survival, so spelling and punctuation would naturally suffer, and alter over time.
The resulting language still needs to be understandable to anyone who reads the novel, but the human brain does pattern recognition really well, so we can stretch how the text is presented to a large degree.
Okay, let’s get down to specifics!
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