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For their part, the British have what House calls the "etiquette of simulation". The British feign an interest in someone...

From a German perspective, this is uncomfortably close to deceit.

IMO, this is one of the reasons the Germans lost the war. The English speakers are by nature sneakier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_(flying_bomb)#Deception

http://www.suite101.com/content/allied-misdirection-fooled-g...



I always wondered why Britain was so keen to keep the efforts at Bletchley Park so secret after the war had been won - it turns out we were selling encryption machines very similar to Enigma to lots of countries and organizations and we didn't want anyone to know that we could break the codes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer#Influence_and...


Why do people forget about the Soviet Union when talking about "the war"?


His post didn't mention the US or Italy either. I'm not sure what on earth that has to do with a discussion about British and German etiquette.


His post didn't mention the US...

Last I checked, English is the language spoken in the US.


I said it's one of the reasons.


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