Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Symbols by Barry J. Blake

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

Barry J. Blake

328 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This title is about language designed to mean what it does not seem to mean. It explores the history and uses of the slangs and argots of schools and trades such as Polari and the languages of ancient cults.

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