I should be very reluctant, as head of His Majesty's Government, to place such an invidious responsibility upon a British officer.

The advantage of a formalized language is rapid communication and the avoidance of ambiguity in applied settings tough, for instance, the use of affirm instead of yes, and one request for clearance to bypass your class testifies to the inappropriateness of Airspeak as an acceptable mode of social communication!

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I never made it as a ‘Tucker Fucker’ (a cook), but I made it as a grunt—crap food and buggered and wet, or buggered and dry, all the time.