Re: POLITICS <G>: Trolls!

Roger Mills scripsit:

> The curious thing is, I'm sure Harry Hooijer's massive Navajo grammar was
> published in the 30s, and could presumably have been available to the
> Japanese, though it's unlikely there were very many Japanese scholars of
> Navajo.
Remember that codetalking was a tactical code: being able to decode it
back at HQ wasn't that useful.  It would need someone who was able to
follow it in real time right there at the front, and there could be
no such supply of either German or Japanese experts.

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came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too.
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