Talk:Grounders/@comment-28398720-20170322045100/@comment-50.207.105.198-20181031190920

They probably wanted to know English for reconnaissance. The idea of "you must know your enemy to fight it" applies here I think. Also I've read in other articles that English changed so rapidly partly because it was planned (artifical) changes that the grounders made in English to separate themselves from their enemies (mainly MW). Those changes eventually became codified/standardized to form a new language.