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imdamoos
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Tolkien_Freak

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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:54 am Post subject: |
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That's a clever way to do it.
I don't know why governments have never thought of using conlangs for cyphers. America's use of Navajo in WWII is the only one that hasn't been some form of messing with the letters of the language they speak anyway. |
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Hemicomputer
Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 610 Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Tolkien_Freak wrote: |
I don't know why governments have never thought of using conlangs for cyphers. America's use of Navajo in WWII is the only one that hasn't been some form of messing with the letters of the language they speak anyway. |
"What do you do in the army?"
"I'm a code-talker."
"Oh, you speak Navajo?"
"No, Klingon." _________________ Bakram uso, mi abila, / del us bakrat, dahud bakrita! |
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achemel
Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hemicomputer wrote: |
"What do you do in the army?"
"I'm a code-talker."
"Oh, you speak Navajo?"
"No, Klingon." |
That would be SO AWESOME. This situation would be the only way I would ever work for the government. _________________ I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah |
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Tolkien_Freak

Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 1231 Location: in front of my computer. always.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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Something to that effect, though with whatever language it is's materials for learning a government secret. |
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Aert
Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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HAHA nice
That was actually one of my original purposes for making Aert - the simplest natural-sounding language I could. Of course, after that came the "I don't like this part," the "oh I forgot about this in languages" and so on until now, and it's still changing lol
I have to agree though - a simple conlang would be ideal for military use. Especially since one wouldn't really need to learn the grammar since they use so many codewords that stand for phrases anyways.
I would imagine the conlang would be the same order (SVO, etc) as the language used by the country, as well as most other aspects. However, some would be changed around for ease and quickness of speech. Ideally, the shouted commands etc would be very short, as well as basic field commands.
And in todays tech-oriented war, since these would most often be bounced through satellites etc, they could encrypt them with an RSA4096 or something  |
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