Re: NAC language suppression

>Having said that, I heard a story once about a joint military >exercise
in 
>the US that had Australian (I think), US, British, (and >one other -
maybe 
>Israeli) troops all operating together.  They found >that language was 
>still a barrier, 'cause the Americans had a really >hard time
understanding 
>the Brits over the radio....  Same with the >Brits and people speaking
with 
>southern US accents...

Interesting enough, I'm a southerner who has just returned from a trip
to 
the UK and I learned that I couldn't understand anyone there who was
from 
any where north of London... but I found that after a couple of pints
that I 
could easily understand this girl I met from Yorkshire! ;) LOL!

Seriously though, I noticed that in the US Army that regional accents
tend 
to get blurred and that 'army speak' tends to take over. After a few
years 
in military service even yankees could understand us southerners- plus
we 
used the same 'slang' (milspeak like AO, and so on)... I would imagine
that 
the same would be the case in the NAC military.

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