Re: Conlangs as secret communication styles
| From: | Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 21, 2008, 21:12 |
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--- On Sun, 12/21/08, Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...> wrote:
> From: Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...>
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> 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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