languages of crime

Plumber   Thu May 21, 2009 4:02 am GMT
What are the most useful languages for the following professions?

a) drug running
b) people running, slavery
c) mercenary soldier
d) political assassinations
e) coup organiser
f) terrorism
g) cannibalism
h) prostitution
i) computer hacking
j) illegal piracy (intellectual information, goods)
k) piracy
l) poaching
m) fraud
n) money laundering
o) pick pocketing
p) hate crimes

In my opinion:

a) drug running - Spanish, Pashto, any large consumer language (English, Russian, Chinese)
b) people running, slavery - Russian, Eastern European languages; French (Africa)
c) mercenary soldier - French, Portuguese (Africa); Russian (Caucasus); English, Arabic (Middle East)
d) political assassinations - Russian, Spanish, French, Portuguese
e) coup organiser - French, Portuguese, Arabic, Spanish
f) terrorism - Pashto, Arabic, Persian, language of target country
g) cannibalism - Japanese
h) prostitution - Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Thai
i) computer hacking - English, Chinese
j) illegal piracy (intellectual information, goods) - Russian, Chinese
k) piracy - Somali, Indonesian
l) poaching - English, Afrikaans
m) fraud - Any language, German
n) money laundering - Any
o) pick pocketing - Any
p) hate crimes - Any
q) guerilla warfare - Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Pashto
r) mafia style organised crime - Italian, Russian, English
Shuimo   Thu May 21, 2009 12:14 pm GMT
That's an interesting topic, but every country has different stereotypes. In Italy, the answers could be:

terrorism: arabic
mafia style organized crime: southern italian dialects
computer hacking: english
drug running: italian, romanian, north african languages
prostitution: east european languages
Bobama   Thu May 21, 2009 12:39 pm GMT
In Spain:

terrorism: basque, arabic

drug running: morocco dialect

prostitution: romanian, brazilian, wolof

money laundering: russian

mafia style organised crime: russian, romanian, bulgarian, balkan languages...
Zapama   Thu May 21, 2009 2:18 pm GMT
In Spain:

terrorism: Basque, Berber, Moroccoan and Saudi Arabic

drug running: Mexican and Colombian Spanish, Berber, Moroccoan Arabic

prostitution: Romanian, Russian, Portuguese

money laundering: Russian

mafia style organised crime: Italian dialects, Basque, Russian, Catalan, Albanian
ssss   Thu May 21, 2009 4:48 pm GMT
brainless people = Spanish
Hitler   Thu May 21, 2009 4:54 pm GMT
We are talking about the role of languages in crime. If being brainless was a crime you would have be given the lethal injection.
Mao   Fri May 22, 2009 7:14 pm GMT
forum spamming: Chinese
Skywalker   Fri May 22, 2009 7:34 pm GMT
Pass over to the dark Force: Basic
Beethoven   Fri May 22, 2009 8:48 pm GMT
"Singing" bad songs at Eurosong: English