> I'm not a linguist, but I'd think divergence ends up negatively impacting interchanges
I think this is true if there is a meaningful iteration between the persons.
For example, some of them get some food and some water, and they have to interchange a some of it because both need food and water. And they only can interchange it if they can talk a little (only a greeting? a minimal barter?) Else they die and are somehow replaced with new agents.
But IIUC in simulations is more simpler and the agents only bounce against each other, and the words are somewhat contagious.
I think this is true if there is a meaningful iteration between the persons.
For example, some of them get some food and some water, and they have to interchange a some of it because both need food and water. And they only can interchange it if they can talk a little (only a greeting? a minimal barter?) Else they die and are somehow replaced with new agents.
But IIUC in simulations is more simpler and the agents only bounce against each other, and the words are somewhat contagious.