Talk:Trigedasleng (language)/@comment-138.237.245.83-20141124182200/@comment-7971816-20141130163330

Many grounders probably speak english for the same reason many europeans do. It's a universal language (in our current time), and a language which is spoken by billions of people. A language like that doesn't die. You have to remember only 3 generations of arkers, meaning also 3 generations of grounders... A language doesn't die over 3 generations.

Most likely they were thought English as a secondary language [this is something that is hard to grasp for most native english speakers, not so much for people from Europe and Asia] just for the sake of having a universal foundation to communicate on in case of an encounter with non-natives.