Considering it'll be only 150 years, despite the traumatic changes in society/societies, I feel the differences in language would be in the colloquial end of the word pool. Meanings of common terms might change with a new slang association. With the withering of mass communications, lots of local terms in one settlement might have a vastly different connotation in settlement #2. Double negatives, litotes (A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.), ironical intonations, associated gestures modifying meaning, all may serve to cloud the true message intended, yet be perfectly understandable to the locals.
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"Let's roll." Todd Beamer, aboard United Flight 93 over western Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001.
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