Comment on Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ?
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Don’t Europeans know basic English? Uk, basic enough to exchange coordinates and stuff? I doubt u would need to have a large enough vocabulary for this.
The World wars for example were fought together in a time where English competency wasn’t as high as it is today.
While I have no doubt that officer (and even most NCO) do know more than basic english, I have some doubts regarding the typical high-school drop out who enlists in the infantry.
So if you need to talk about geopolitic, aircraft maintenance or even coordinates two different group of soldier, NATO english would be fine. But how would a multi-lingual crew works on a warship ? What about a multi-lingual patrol ?
Why would a multilingual crew even exist? Wouldn’t an EU armed force be just like NATO without the US? Regiments and groups specific to countries instead of regiments involving multiple countries.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
EU wide force
No EU member has English as its main language
“They could simply use English!”
Anglos and the feeling of being at the center of everything, name a more iconic duo.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ireland?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Don’t leprechauns speak Irish?
(I honestly just didn’t think about them, oops!)
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I went there a couple months ago, and it seemed like all the native folks spoke Irish (Gaelic) to some degree. It was pretty surprising, I thought I’d have to go to the west coast to get away from English, but nope, even the first cabbie I encountered in Dublin was more than happy to chat about linguistics!