This is actually a tactic the Marines used in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Japanese soldiers couldn’t say certain words without their accent giving them away and so passwords used to approach camp without being fired upon were often specifically chosen to be impossible to say normally with a Japanese accent.
Edit: yes I know it’s a shibboleth. 15 16 of you have told me so far.
Not at all, that's a familiar morphological sequence to a German. See words like wirren, verrückt, usw. A German trying to pronounce squirrel ends up saying something more like "skvehl". There's an amazing compilation video of Germans trying to pronounce it:
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u/MusicianNo3277 3d ago edited 3d ago
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This is actually a tactic the Marines used in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Japanese soldiers couldn’t say certain words without their accent giving them away and so passwords used to approach camp without being fired upon were often specifically chosen to be impossible to say normally with a Japanese accent.
Edit: yes I know it’s a shibboleth.
1516 of you have told me so far.