Across
- 5. A coded form of English once used by British actors and the LGBTQ+ community to speak freely when being open wasn’t safe.
- 7. informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, occupation, or hobby
- 9. also called a ceremonial or a ritual language, which is only learned and used by a select initiated group
- 10. a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to the untrained ear.
Down
- 1. Some twins develop their own languages that only they understand. These aren’t always full languages but unique combinations of invented words, intonation, and rhythm.
- 2. the jargon or argot of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group
- 3. replacing a common word with a phrase of two or more words, the last of which rhymes with the original word; then, in almost all cases, omitting, from the end of the phrase, the secondary rhyming word (which is thereafter implied), making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.
- 4. Dutch Vowels are pronounced normally, but consonants become syllables.
- 6. This is the most popular and well-known secret language. Move the first letter to the end of the word and add “ay” to it.
- 8. strictly a proper language with its own grammar, used to prevent understanding by outsiders; sometimes argot is used as a synonym of cant or jargon