> I got on a plane once and ended up in Cardiff, Wales. I was paying a
> surprise visit to my girlfriend who was out. I ended up first in a hotel
> then at a bar with the local football team. I complained about them all
> talking Welsh then they informed me they were talking English.

I flew from England to Dublin with Ryan Air - a must do once only
adventure in its own right.
The hostess appeared to be Jamaican and spoke heavily Irish-ised
English with a strong Jamaican accent.
My wife and I thought that we could probably just about work out what
she was saying at least some of the time, safety drill and all.
Non native-English language speakers (except maybe Irish and
Jamaicans) would have had absolutely no chance of understanding
anything she said.

Shades of 'code talkers' :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002073F/thinkquest/Code_talkers.htm

Book preview - some text viewable:
           http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=PwVFeIF6K-IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=war+talkers&source=bl&ots=hx9gx7bdit&sig=iXSXtG0PaR-44TgXcY7vCQSXMmc&hl=en&ei=PjruS6aWHo2qtgP9yty2Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false


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