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LOL....but back to the subject. There is a great war movie (2002) based on the true story of the Native American language of the Navajo being used to talk in 'code' sending and receiving messages 'under the radar' from behind the enemy lines in Japan. Its worth checking out if you haven't seen it. Windtalkers
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The code itself wasn't all that breakable. It was words like eagle for a bomber and hawk for a fighter plane. It was the fact that it was all being done in Navajo, one of the few Indian languages that German linguists hadn't studied. When they did the spelling they'd do things like A for able but they'd translate able into Navajo and come up with something like liit'asho (not a real example).
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