Re: POLITICS <G>: Trolls!

Stephen DeGrace wrote:
Okay, the IAL Romanico was
>originally
>> developed as a private language by a gang of
>shoplifters, but I'm not
>> aware of any use by political or military groups.
>>
>> http://www.homunculus.com/babel/aromanico.html
>
>OMG, that's so cool, I hope it turns out to be a true
>story. Thanks for sharing the link!
Yes, quite interesting.  Evidently a quite thoughtful group of "schoolboys".
The remainder of the site shows the author to be a quite sincere, and not
too flammante, auxlanger.
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S.DeG. also wrote (re the Navajo code-talkers):
>... I'd think it would be something
>for the Navajo to be proud of, really... JMHO...
As I understand from assorted TV shows on the subject, yes, they are proud
of it.
Apparently they were able to transmit a lot of information in plain Navajo,
but some words (perhaps e.g. "tank") were spelled out with Navajo words
assigned to the letters by convention ("tank"might have been, in Navajo,
'fifty rabbits ate sour tomatoes' or somesuch.)

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.  Even worse than, but not unlike, the lack of Arabic speakers in US
"intelligence"  agencies.

As to his concern that Mr. MagRáighne might be another troll, perhaps one is
being a little -- as the Irish seem to say -- pharanóid (the only "Irish"
word I recognized in the thread at Gaelic-L.)  ":-)" noted.

BTW what is DNFTT?

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