Re: POLITICS <G>: Trolls!

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Tim May wrote:

>  > Incidentally, I've heard it claimed that Navajo was used because its so
>  > unique, and unlike any other language on Earth, but I'm sure that's an
>  > urban legend of the same caliber as the 50,000 (or whatever the figure
>  > is now) Eskimo words for snow.  :-)
>  >
>
> >From what I remember from Singh's book, several Native American
> languages were considered.
Not only considered, there were other American Indian languages used,
Navajo was just the biggest and most successful. Choctaw was also used on
a minor scale.

Marcus