re: M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village" is actually a solid movie

If you put yourself into the shoes of the villagers there was absolutely no good reason to intentionally twist your English from something like "eat your porridge" to "your porridge eat you shall".

It was not a provided clue. I get that the villagers might have wanted to change their clothing to a simpler, less ornate, less modern style. But that doesn't work for language. If you're going to have a twist at least make it an honest one, like in The Sixth Sense.