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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's interesting to note that, in the First World War, the "official" language of the Italian army was English because most of the army could not speak or understand Italian, but all the officers could speak English.
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well, that's weird.
If illiterate peasants knew very little Tuscan, they certainly cuould not understand Engilsh, while officers who could speak English certainly knew Italian.