{"id":88,"date":"2003-04-16T18:53:50","date_gmt":"2003-04-17T00:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=88"},"modified":"2003-04-16T18:53:50","modified_gmt":"2003-04-17T00:53:50","slug":"military-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/04\/16\/military-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does a soldier need to know how to say in a foreign language?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting question, I think.  I actually hit on it by accident.  I was looking for an Arabic phrasebook, just because it&#8217;s one of the world&#8217;s major languages that I don&#8217;t have a phrasebook for yet.  While I was searching, I came across a book that was an Iraqi Arabic Phrasebook for Military Personnel.  That got me thinking&#8230;  What do those soldiers need to know when they&#8217;re talking to the natives?  What kind of questions and answers are expected at check-points?  How does one tell an enemy soldier that their surrender has been accepted?  Do soldiers make small-talk with the natives?  What about intelligence gathering?  Or, bribes?<br \/>\nUnfortunately, the book was unavailable, so I couldn&#8217;t see what the authors thought military personnel should know.  In any case, it sure is something to consider when building a language, a world or culture, or a story about international war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a soldier need to know how to say in a foreign language? It&#8217;s an interesting question, I think. I actually hit on it by accident. I was looking for an Arabic phrasebook, just because it&#8217;s one of the world&#8217;s major languages that I don&#8217;t have a phrasebook for yet. While I was searching, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constructed-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}