Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28013738-20170307133051/@comment-26484417-20170308233942

JBennett wrote:... You're making it sound as if the "Outside World" is a singular place of origin and answer to every question about the location--there is a lot more to explain. As for SIU mentioning the "Outside World", that's what the "outside of the Tower" (i.e., different place from the Tower) is called; we could call it "Bambyland" and nothing would change.

For the second part, that reasoning only holds if you constrain Pocket functionality in a certain way, and there is no reason to believe any such constrain exists; especially when we're talking about something from a fantasy world that is initialised upon contact. What's to say that--for instance--Baam's language hasn't been downloaded into the Pocket the moment he initialised it. And who says that there even needs to be "technological" explanation in the first place?

Theoretical Q&A aside, the simple fact is that even the Tower alone has myriad of languages, so it's suspicious to assume that the Tower and the Outside World share one or more languages. Even if the GW and / or the Workshop brought in their respective languages, or if the Tower originally had the same language(s) as the Outside World, the "Outside World" branch of the language would evolve in an entirely different direction than the "Tower" branch of the language by the virtue of their different environments--and that could happen in a matter of centuries, and incomparably more so in a matter of millennia.