The residents of Boonville, CA are trying to save their local language, known as 'Boontling', which is more than 150 years old.

http://screen.yahoo.com/boo...guage-000000145.html

That's pretty cool.

Kind of like Ebonics.

Wicked pissa.

So can Boonie speak it?

Last time I was in school I had a classmate from Boonville. Very cool guy and very cool town. Perfect small town in Northern California.

If they were to attempt this today from the git go, they would be branded as some ind of subversive group and accused of attempting to encrypt their verbal communications.

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During WW2, the army used Navajo "Code Talkers" to relay radio messages in the Pacific. The Japanese couldn't decode it since at that time it was only a spoken language and no written translations existed.

In the words of Emilio Estevez, That was Then-This is Now.

quote Originally posted by spark1: During WW2, the army used Navajo "Code Talkers" to relay radio messages in the Pacific.

I've met some of the few remaining Navajo code talkers. It's not widely known, but Choctaws and Indians from some other Oklahoma tribes, comprising the 45^th Infantry Division, did the same thing less formally in Europe during both WW-I and WW-II. Since the Choctaw language and the languages of several other Oklahoma tribes (specifically the so-called Five Civilized Tribes) already incorporated many concepts from English, they just communicated directly. The Navajo code was more formal and included very specific codes for words and concepts that were foreign to the Navajo language. The Naval History web site now has the full declassified Navajo code book posted on-line; it's worth a few minutes browsing.

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