Right?!
Right?!
I think there's an ultimate win for the grounders beyond just the 47. The Mountain Men have been kidnapping and torturing their people for years, this war will end that, end any new Reapers coming into the world and prevent the Mountain Men from taking over the outside world after their "treatments."
"Even freaking Murphy has me interested now!"
SO CREEPY.
"alcoholic skeleton who reveals the path to freedom"
This is absolutely what I remember scaring the crap out of me as a kid from this movie. We had this on VHS tape in the early 80's and watched A LOT. It was the skeleton recognizing and calling out Almathea as the unicorn and screaming and pointing at her…
It was jumbled in on a wiki page about the language. I know Lincoln specifically says somewhere in an early S1 episode that warriors speak English. The wiki page was mostly pieced together from interviews with the language creator, David Peterson, who talks about the language a lot on his tumblr and twitter.
Part of the explanation of the language differing so much was that they purposefully worked at code words that The Mountain Men couldn't understand. The warriors continued to learn English so that they could understand the mountain men.