Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24573226-20160730201421/@comment-25936766-20160802212123

MiniDaggers wrote: -His sense of humor and skill in leadership is likely gone.

-Despite being adaptable most of his knowledge in many of these areas would be gone as well. Language I do not know whether he would know either. -What "skill in leadership"?

-To quote Wikipedia's article about this: "Amnesic patients also retain substantial intellectual, linguistic, and social skill despite profound impairments in the ability to recall specific information encountered in prior learning episodes."

So yes, he would indeed know how to speak any languages he knew beforehand, he just would not know where or when he learned them.

@Hazel: There's this thing called Source Amnesia, which is not mutually exclusive with other kinds of amnesia. It consists of the individual retaining factual knowledge, but cannot remember where, when or how they gained that knowledge.

So in this case, he would indeed know about the Grimm, but would not be able to remember where he learned that. Then again, given what the Grimm do, pretty sure info about them would be available everywhere, and just from looking at them one can tell they are dangerous, so it's not like much would change.