Language ?

[grahamanderson]

Hi guys

What language is more usefull at the moment to the marines(besides english)

Arabic, Pashto(pashtu) or Persian(farsi,dari whatever you would like to call it) ?

I happened to know a guy who is willing to teach me one of these languages, just curious as to what the marines would prefer.

Thanks

Gra

[Si Capon]

It`s no good talking the talk..

Unless you can walk the walk

[druadan]

Pashtu very useful in Afghanistan, Farsi's not bad either. Don't know what they speak in Iraq.

Useful skill to have, but don't think it'll go getting you any gucci jobs (although I imagine Y Tp would quite like you).

[SO19]

That would be Arabic and Kurdish.

[Tab]

I never seemed to have any trouble in making myself understood using my hands to do the talking. It amazing just what gestures you can make while doing this.

[SO19]

You just have to be careful not to make the wrong gestures.

[harry hackedoff]

You won`t go far wrong with Scouse, Geordy, Taff orJock
DYERNOWARRAMEENLIKE, ARKID?

[Artist]

Learn how to speak Janner.

"Ow do Ee want youm yon oggie loike me andsum?....Arrr!"

Without a basic knowledge of it your going to totally bolloxed stood in the queue of Ivor Dewdneys Oggie shop in Cornwall Street Guz.

Artist

[Foxtricks]

ear less of the Janner you basard

Foxy

[harry hackedoff]

`Ere, youm dont blong sleggin Artist orft He`em from Padstowe n all

Artiste, did you clock the request for Oggys from the old fat splasher in the latest G&B? He hasn`t half lost some weight mind yew
Mind yew, some say he had plenty to lose

Not this callsign, obviously

[harry hackedoff]

Here`s what Navy News had to say.
And Hinklin never got a mention Kin matelots



TASTY CHRISTMAS TREAT FOR ROYALS 18.12.06 10:00



THERE’S nothing like traditional fare at Christmas when your thousands of miles from home.Turkey and roast spuds with all the trimmings, Christmas pud with lashing of brandy butter, 800 pasties.Eight hundred pasties? Okay, so it’s not strictly speaking a typical Christmas dinner, but it is a reminder of home for the Royal Marines on the front line in Afghanistan.The good folk of Ivor Dewdney Pasties in Plymouth (yes, we’re aware that the pasties aren’t strictly speaking Cornish) arranged for 800 of their finest (weighing a quarter of a ton in all) to be dispatched via the RAF.“If receiving a pasty brings a smile to the face of a Royal Marine and reminds them of home, then I’m happy to help – this is our way of saying: ‘Thank you’,” said Phil Abbott, Dewdney’s boss.The pasties began their 4,000-mile journey in Cornwall Street in Plymouth where they were collected from the Dewdney bakery by Royals; a few minutes later they were transferred to a refrigerated vehicle at RM Stonehouse. Then it was up the A38, M4 and A34 to RAF Brize Norton for transfer to a waiting flight, then to Kandahar in Afghanistan, and finally by road from Kandahar to 3 Cdo Bde’s HQ at Lashkar Gar in Helmand.“This really is great,” said Sgt Rick Townsend. “The people of Plymouth have really got behind the Marines serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.”Picture courtesy of the Plymouth Herald.

Jew no wot? I could just go a couple of Oggys and a gert big dollop of HP, washed down with a decent pint of Guinness

[harry hackedoff]

Who`s Tom the Cabin Boy at the top end of the tray?
See Ivor`s trapped again