Talk:Gem Homeworld/@comment-11402489-20170130232218/@comment-31509668-20170602013541

It would be very unlikely that anyone on this alternate Earth is speaking any sort English that we'd recognize. Or at least they shouldn't be.

English is a language born of war and conquest. Starting with the conquests of the Roman Empire which spread Latin all over Europe to the Norman Conquest, the Viking Raids and so on. That's why English is such a hard language to learn. This history means it has no consistent and unified set of grammatical rules.

These numerous wars and conquests would not likely have happened on the gem controlled Earth given that it would have interfered with gem colonizing operations. Since Gems were all over the planet and humans had to interact with them humans likely learned the gem language and it became the planetary lingua franca. When the gems were driven off Earth human languages started drifiting much as they did when the Roman Empire fell.

In the same way that Latin formed the basis of the romance languages on our Earth, the gem language probably formed the basis of all the languages that evolved on that Earth after the gems were driven off. Of course the flaw in this hypothesis is the fact that all of the signage we've seen around Beach City is written in very recognizable English. We've also seen signage written in Korean in "Steven's Dream". But there's also the fact that Lars was able to talk to the Off Color gems even though they'd never seen a human before and were speaking in the gem language and Lars never appeared to have learned the gem language.