[quote name='Cornfedwb'][quote name='jmcc'][quote name='Cornfedwb']Anyone look at what this guy has been buying? Learn to speak Navajo, Swahili, Turkish, German, Historical Chinese, French... this guy is goofy.[/quote]
Learn to speak Navajo? I thought Navajo prided itself on not having a written record of their language. That's why they were used as encryptors in WWII, wasn't it?[/quote]
They were code-breakers, not makers... I thought. Their language somehow worked something like the Enigma machine the Germans had, giving them a huge advantage.. or I'm entirely wrong, don't know really.[/quote]
No, it was the other way around, I think. No one outside of their culture knew the language, so it made safe to use as a code. It would have been very hard for Germany to go to the Southwest and recruit Navajo. But again, I'm not certain, so hopefully a WWII buff will come on and set us straight.