Thursday, 27 January 2011

Black Line Language ?

Yesterday I was led, by septicisle – great blogger by the way – to the published record of Sir Richard Dearlove’s evidence to the Chilcott Enquiry (here for the full 93 pages).

Most of his evidence was given in a language I can’t read – Black Line.  Look at four successive pages below (pp70 – 73 of 93).

You will notice a couple of lines in English about having a short break – for tea, no doubt – and if you look carefully you’ll see that Black Line has no equivalent for names, uses question marks but no other punctuation. 

Chilcottp70

Chilcottp71

Chilcottp72

Chilcottp73

Clearly the participants can speak and read Black Line fluently but I am clueless.

Can you translate this for me? 

I put it into Google Translate but it was helpless: never recognised Black Line as a language.

Someone must be able to help!

7 comments:

jams o donnell said...

Can't help you with black line. If it were bollocks I am fluent..

Knatolee said...

Well that's just totally useless, isn't it!?

CalumCarr said...

This is our freedom!

The freedom NOT to know what the state doesn't want us to know.

We need a Wikileaks leak of this.

H. insciens said...

Oh I can read that. It says, in a rather long-winded way, "Piss off plebs this is not for the likes of you, but thanks for paying our wages though."

CalumCarr said...

My god, you're right! Bastards!

The sooner the plebs are revolting the better.

Liz said...

You obviously have to be a 'Sir' to understand.

Anonymous said...

So much for openness and transparency.

Loosely translated, this means 'TPTB were pissing on you plebs and your delusions of democracy; send us yet more of your young people so that we can throw them a bit of inferior soldier kit and pack 'em off to do our psychopathic murdering for us.'