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Language game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A language game (also called secret language or ludling ) is a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to the untrained ear. Language games are used primarily by grou...
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with glossaries of two secret languages … By a; London, John Camden Hotten, 1859. First edition of one of the most famous and important dictionaries of slang, small 8vo, pp. [4], x, lxxxvi, [2], 160; ... Hundreds of the world's finest antiquarian and used booksellers offer their books on Antiqbook.
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During my childhood, the secret language was eggy peggy which disguised words by putting ‘eggy’ before each vowel -there’s a nice little guide to it and other secret languages here.
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For the nasty backbiting stuff we had a pool of languages that would always leave somebody out of the loop - Hungarian, Yiddish, Romanian, Russian, ... I learned Romanian completely through the bitter invective of my Grandmother, who hadn't taught it to her own kids, who in turn, used Russian as a secret language of hate.
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They are about to stop a crime --- but they need to crack the secret language of the criminals first. Luckily, they both understand complicated secret languages like Iggity, Ward-back, Ra-Ha and Egg. See if they are able to decode the clues.
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[ACVault] VN Boards » Asheron's Call Main Boards » AC Friends » What "secret languages" did you use as a kid? ... Topic: What "secret languages" did you use as a kid?
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Every discipline and specialization establishes its own power words, its own secret language. These languages serve a multiple of purposes: to establish mastery, to deliver specificity, to foster group identification, to create an artificial barrier to entry.
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