Multi-ethnic imperial militaries develop anational caste identities with their own jargon

Evidence

The military ‘constituted something like an anational caste, the members of which lived even in their private lives ordinarly distinct from their national environments and spoke very often a special language, the so-called ärarisch deutsch (“fiscal German”), as it was ironically named by the representatives of the literary German, meaning by it a strange linguistic mixture which does not take the rules of grammar very seriously.’ Jászi, The Dissolution, p. 144. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 527

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘ärarisch deutsch’ (‘fiscal German’) as a term for the imperial military’s distinctive linguistic argot.