Weighing in from left field.

I seem to remember reading something about the first or second time the English invaded Afghanistan from the Raj involving language.

My memory - fallible, very fallible - runs a bit like this: The English army was using someone from the border region around the Khyber Pass as an interpreter, "sold" to them on the basis of his rank/caste and his ability to speak the languages of the area. Turns out that this chappie only spoke Pashto the way I speak French. Very slowly and with lots of gaps. The rest is history ...

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