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  • Yeah, e.g. Merkel and Putin. Both can speak German and Russian very well, but they still used translators for offical talks. Too much of a risk to use a phrase or word that means something in one language, but translated it can mean something else or have bad implications.

    On that level you don’t want an accidental misunderstanding.

    Not even talking about insults, world leaders cpuld identify that, but imagine accidentally promising or indicating something you didn’t want to.







  • Yeah, you had far-back strategists all over the world use stuff to illustrate formations and how things were relative to other things. As far as we know, it was Prussian Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig (hell of a name) who was the first to make it into a kind of game with set rules with the purpose of training army officers. This was iterate within Prussia with different kind of rules (e.g. dice or non-grid maps).