DON'T SPEAK THE ENEMY'S LANGUAGE!
Language Log 2016-02-23
Summary:
This World War II American propaganda poster speaks for itself: A poster of WWII era discouraging the use of Italian, German, and Japanese. (Source) Our first task is to transcribe and translate the German, Japanese, and Italian: Adolf Hitler: Die Demokratie muss zerschmettert werden! ("Democracy must be destroyed!") Tōjō Hideki: Demokurashī o hakai seyo デモクラシーを破壊せよ。 […]