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2. Thieves' cant - Wikipedia

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   Thieves' cant (also known as thieves' argot, rogues' cant, or peddler's French) [1] is a cant, cryptolect, or argot which was formerly used by thieves, beggars, and hustlers of various kinds in Great Britain and to a lesser extent in other English-speaking countries. It is now mostly obsolete and used in literature and fantasy role-playing ...

3. Language game - Wikipedia

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   A language game (also called a cant, secret language, ludling, or argot) is a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to an untrained listener. Language games are used primarily by groups attempting to conceal their conversations from others. Some common examples are Pig Latin; the Gibberish family, prevalent in the ...

4. Cant (language) - Wikipedia

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   A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. [ 1 ] It may also be called a cryptolect, argot, pseudo-language, anti-language or secret language. Each term differs slightly in meaning; their uses are inconsistent. Richard Rorty defines cant by saying that "'Cant', in the sense in ...

5. List of constructed languages - Wikipedia

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   Based on pitch levels sounded with their solfege syllables (a "musical language") although no knowledge of music is required to learn it. Communicationssprache. 1839. Joseph Schipfer. Based on French. Universalglot. 1868. Jean Pirro. An early a posteriori language, predating even Volapük.

6. Code talker - Wikipedia

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   Code talker. Checked. Choctaw soldiers in training in World War I for coded radio and telephone transmissions. A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. The term is most often used for United States service members during the World Wars who used their ...

7. Constructed language - Wikipedia

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   Constructed language. A constructed language (shortened to conlang) [a] is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary, instead of having developed naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised for a work of fiction. A constructed language may also be referred to as an artificial ...

8. Polari - Wikipedia

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   Polari Palare, Parlary, Palarie, Palari Region United Kingdom Native speakers None Language family English-based slang and other Indo-European influences Language codes ISO 639-3 pld Glottolog pola1249 This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA ...

9. Esoteric programming language - Wikipedia

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   Esoteric programming language. An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional programming or procedural programming ...