Comments on: Japanese screenies

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:08:10 +0000

That would be the same people who care for the english language.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 07:06:38 +0000

Who de hell care of jap tenks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 04:19:00 +0000

My underwear

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 01:04:32 +0000

…you didn’t just fail to know what *etymology* means, did you? -.-;

By: Iron_Tsunami

Iron_Tsunami — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:41:19 +0000

Its because you didn’t glasses put on.

*Insert trollface*

;)

By: Bayart

Bayart — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:01:16 +0000

The US were in a similar situation after WWII. M4 Shermans were absolutely everywhere, including in France before the tank industry was put back on rails (we still use old Shermans as training targets on military fields).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 22:06:16 +0000

British uniform after redcoats ;)

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:09:41 +0000

Pretty much. It’s an originally Persian word and basically means soil/dirt(-colored); use started in the mid-1800s in the North-West Frontier Indian Army units. Them scarlet jackets were apparently a mite painfully conspicious given the hill tribes’ penchance for sniping…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki

Similarly during one of the (many and dodgy) “interventions” into China someone figured out the white buff-leather equipement straps were a bit on the eye-catching side and as a field-expedient solution the soldiers began dying them with tea.

By: skaianDestiny

skaianDestiny — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:07:07 +0000

No one is safe.

By: skaianDestiny

skaianDestiny — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:06:06 +0000

If it has Chi it’s a medium, I believe Ke means light as well. Could be wrong though.