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Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Symbols Book

This book is about language designed to mean what it does not seem to mean. Codes protect secrets. Symbol and magic hide meanings to imperil or delight. Languages made to confuse let insiders talk openly without being understood by others. Barry Blake looks in depth at these and many more and illuminates the most arcane and curious uses of languageRead More

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  • Blackwell

    Barry Blake explores the history and uses of the slangs and argots of schools and trades. He traces the centuries-old cants used by sailors and criminals in Britain, among them Polari, the mix of Italian, Yiddish, and slang once spoken among...

  • 0199579288
  • 9780199579280
  • Barry J. Blake
  • 25 March 2010
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 352
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