2005-07-15

Well...

....there are Twenty Things That Only Happen in Movies.

#8 Struck a chord with this jaded viewer: Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to learn to speak German. Simply speaking English with a German accent will do. Similarly, when they are alone, all German soldiers prefer to speak English to each other.

2 comments:

JD Rhoades said...

Heh! Reminds me of the "official" Star Trek explanation of why the Klingons speak English, even to other Klingons: the high ranking ones speak English among themselves so the low ranking phaser fodder won't overhear them and won't know what's going on unless they have a need to know.

Jen Jordan said...

And I though love was the only interstellular language.