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Military Hiring Linguists To Translate Military Instructions

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Military Hiring Linguists To Translate Military Instructions

Drew Mack
Oct 29, 2015
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Military Hiring Linguists To Translate Military Instructions

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MONTEREY, Calif. — The Defense Language Institute is teaching its first class of linguists to understand military instructions and regulations, sources report.

“This is the first time we’ve created a formal course to teach native English speakers how to read and write Regulation,” said school commander, Col. Phil Deppert. “It may be the toughest challenge we’ve ever faced. Translating Regulation has always been an art, not a science.”

The DLI has stepped up recruitment to meet their Regulation speaker quotas,and so far have signed dozens of the hugest nerds.

“I’ve been studying this language for eighteen years and I still struggle with it,” 1st Sgt. Antwone Motteux, the class’ lead instructor, said. “We’re looking at a language with no logical consistency, no steady rules, and irrational changes every week. Our students seem to be getting the hang of it though.”

Motteux was busy grading his students first essay. The assignment was to write ‘Hello’ in Regulation using less than twenty page…

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