Seasons

I'm an 8th grader who's not from Leeds!

after the leeds kids become extinct as a result of survival of the fittest, lets make a museum of the extinct "primates"

We could tell you were not from Leeds, you use words to speak, and put them in sentences.

It's not all the Leeds kids fault. I would imagine the lack of an opposable thumb makes typing a little tricky.

I only use my thumbs to use the spacebar! Maybe they just never learned to speak/write/type and can only use the bits and pieces they learned from the internet?

Learning to spell from the internet is like trying to learn to speak by listening to a parrot. Or a parrotbot

The problem isn't that they're learning to spell from the internet. The problem is that they're learning to spell from each other

Where did the people they're learning from learn it?

That's the problem, they didn't. :\

It spontaneously arose from first principles. In another few billion years, it might constitute intelligent life.

So they're born with the ability to speak... Leedsish?

They're not born - there's no parthenogenesis involved. They divide by meiosis, and their language abilities have evolved out of a primitive proto-pheremonal chemographic communication system. It's fascinating really - like that vat of methane and carbon gunk at Princeton they've been zapping with x-rays and UV and electricity for 40 years now to recreate the preCambrian ooze, and which spontaneously forms amino acids and complex proteins out of simpler raw materials.