Re: Navajo codes (was: POLITICS <G>: Trolls!)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 7, 2002, 0:20 |
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Tim May wrote:
> Most items of technical vocabulary lacking in Navajo were assigned
> codewords. I don't have the book with me, but one I remember was
> "mortars" -> "guns that squat".
I seem to remember that types of planes were referred to by the names of
certain birds, and ships likewise by kinds of fish.
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