I'm going to run with your idea.

If me and you play tennis in a world where tennis doesn't exist, yet somehow we both know the rules, that would be interesting. Then the question becomes, why would one of the tennis players suggest a rule or an interpretation of a rule in a certain way that differs from the other tennis player? Well, why would anyone coopt agreed upon rules? To be the ruler! You listen to my rules.

If say to you, I don't like your way of constructing sentences, you should do it more like me - then I am trying impose a rule on you. Why do I have this impulse? Orwell's whole thesis was about how language is a form of rule-making and control.