Windtalkers

Posted by tyan (Singapore, Singapore) on 13 March 2009 in People & Portrait.

...John Woo's movie, starring Nicholas Cage and Christian Slater.

Plot summary
In the close quarters and brutal fighting of the World War II Pacific Theater, the U.S. Intelligence services desperately seek a fool-proof encryption code, immune to the code breakers of the Japanese. The answer is soon discovered in the ancient language of the Navajo. Enlisted into the Marine Corps are several "Windtalkers" who are deployed to frontline areas in the Pacific, to use their language as an impossible-to-crack secret code. A drawback, however, is that the U.S. military soon puts forth a directive that the Windtalkers must never be captured alive by the enemy, so additional Marines are assigned to make certain that this directive is carried out to the letter.
~ Written by Anthony Hughes
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Ian has been bubbling a lot of conversation lately and I have to admit I wasn't always listening. Sometimes he comes bubbling excitedly about what he sees and i'll just go,'Really?That's nice',without really 'registering' what he is saying. I am working on that. As i mentioned earlier, Ian cannot seem to pronounce most words.

Cup becomes Dub
Scared becomes Dared
Go becomes Doh

After i broke the 'Ah Buy'(decode=can't find) code few days back,I got hooked,and our conversations become a little like those of the windtalkers.

Ian goes babbliing while i try to decode some of the things he said which i never managed to figure out what they really were.

Few days ago,when his dad went out,he stood at the door and said,

'Where papa ah-win, Papa ah-win work'

What is ah-win?

Yeah you are right,it's 'going'.

At night,he spontaneously said,

'Ah nai,papa'

'Ah nai,mummy'

'Ah nai,dordor'

'Ah nai, didi'

He was saying 'good night' to his dad,mum,brother(gorgor which he pronounce as dordor) and himself.

Then there is 'ligh.Ah bu ah dard'
Decode: Like. Blue Card.(He likes the blue card,which is my ez-link or train/bus card)

'Ligh. Udder-meh'
Decode: Like. Spiderman. (He likes spiderman)

'bubber bai'
Decode: Butterfly

'ah mer beh'
Decode: Thomas Train(sounds very remotely alike right?)

'Ah molt ah toll'
Decode: Remote control

And then I realise if i would just pay attention to what he said,it is not so difficult being windtalkers.In fact,it gives some kind of mysterious thrill,because only Ian and I understand,LOL.