Re: Conlangs as secret communication styles

Though not a conlang, I have used the old Deutsche Schrift as a way to
encrypt my personal thoughts. I have also written English in Cyrillic
alphabet as well as Hebrew. I keep a stenographer's pad on my desk to write
in. I can vent in good way and no one would ever know what I have said.


Scotto
sine pericvlo non vita

-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On
Behalf Of Gary Shannon
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 2:13 PM
To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
Subject: Re: Conlangs as secret communication styles


--- On Sun, 12/21/08, Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...> wrote:

> From: Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...>
...
> I've heard of examples of conlangs created specifically
> for the author's own diary (for the express purpose of
> keeping the contents secret.)  I've also heard rumors
> that security agencies (read:  NSA or CIA in the United
> States) create conlangs as a form of cipher.
>
> Has anybody on the list created a "secret
> language" such as this?
Pre-personal computers, and certainly pre-Internet, I used my pictographic
language to write my personal diary. It wasn't that I put any effort into
keeping it secret, it was simply that nobody I knew was at all interested in
conlangs in general, or my pictographs in particular. So it was "secret" by
default.

--gary

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