The Language of Ender's Game
The boys at the Battle School have their own special little slanguage that the student body has developed from their native languages over time. Frequently, someone will be called a name that is an actual word from a distant or old language, and usually that word wither means something insulting or honorable. For example, 'doll back' is used to call someone a screwup, but it's derived from the Russian word 'dolbak', which basically means the same thing.
A while back I mentally compared this book to Lord of the Flies. These kids in battle school go unchecked as far as Ender, it feels like there's not as heavy an adult presence as there actually is. In Lord of the Flies, the boys' lack of guidance and leadership drive them to tribal behavior.
A much more civil form of this happens in Ender's Game, but aside from the obvious parallel of armies to tribes, we also see this primal behavior when children reach to express things with the language of their home land instead of the common language of the International Fleet.
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