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>It's funny ot think English is one of the few cases of a language 
>lots of folk claim to speak, and yet someone from the Hebrides 
>speaking English will have real trouble talking to someone from 
>Memphis or someone from Alice Springs or Detroit's Inner City.  
>
>To bring this OT for GZG, I wonder how to simulate this in GZG games 
>- difficulties (increased roll req'd) for support requests and other 
>commo requests between nationalities? Or do we assume on board 
>translation AI takes care of all this in the future?

We assume that everybody gets trained in "Standard English" during Basic
Training, and we send the Scots, Irish, Australians, and anybody from
Liverpool off for remedial English-as-a-second-dialect training...  
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