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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samloyal23" data-source="post: 7559189" data-attributes="member: 21432">The amount of time planned for the trip, the number of people going, and how homogeneous the population is, are going to vastly change the potential for linguistic drift. I can read novels by Mark Twain with no trouble at all, but cannot understand some modern rap lyrics. Strict, universal, consistent education goes a long way to work against linguistic drift. There is also the fact that you have a captive population. No one is leaving before the ship arrives at its destination. So everyone is going to hear the same language on the street, see the same news media, read the same books and magazines, and rub shoulders with the same group of people throughout their lives. I do not think a journey of less than 200-300 years would lead to any significant linguistic drift.Another issue I have not seen discussed is what to do with the people who die. Do you go for the navy style burial at sea, launching the coffin into the Void? Compost the dead for use in the garden? Turn them into Soylent Green smoothies for people to slurp down with lunch?</blockquote>