However, some Internet users can read Leet, albeit with some difficulty. They used it to pass secret messages among members. Leet was started by an elite hacker group in the 1980s. For instance, “Hacker” is spelled where “|-|” represents “H,” represents “a,” “k” represents “ck,” “3” represents “e,” and “r” remains unchanged. Leet, Leet speak, or Hackspeak works by replacing individual letters in a word with a single number, symbol, or group of numbers or symbols that resembles the letter. “Pig Latin” translates to “igpay atinlay,” and for the curious, “Listverse” translates to “istverselay.” If it begins with a vowel, “way” is added to its end, so “awesome” becomes “awesomeway.” If it begins with a consonant followed by a vowel, the consonant is moved to the end of the word, and “ay” is added, so, “happy” becomes “appyhay.” If it begins with two consonants, both consonants are moved to the end of the word, and ”ay” is added, so, “child” becomes “ildchay.”Īn English–Pig Latin converter can be found here. Some Pig Latin words like “ixnay,” which was derived from the word “nix,” and “amscray,” which was derived from the word “scram,” have been adopted into the English language.Ĭonverting an English word to Pig Latin depends on the letter or group of letters that begins the word. It was first used around 1869 and has been called other names, like Hog Latin, Goose Latin and Dog Latin. Police officers are called “sharpy,” “lilly law,” or “charpering omi,” while an attractive man is called a “dish.” A telephone is called a “polari pipe,” while Polari itself means “talk.” A dictionary of Polari terms can be found here.Ĭhildren, and sometimes adults, use Pig Latin, which is formed by altering words of the English Language, to secretly communicate among themselves. “Vada” means “look at,” “dolly eek” refers to a pretty face, and a “chicken” is a young man. In Polari, sex is called “trade,” while “cottaging” refers to the act of looking for partners in bathrooms. If the stranger replied, they knew he was game, but if he did not, they continued minding their business-all without giving a clue to their sexuality. Polari allowed gays to secretly talk with themselves and strike conversations with strangers they felt were gay. Polari started off as a means of communication among British sailors in the 19th century but became the unofficial language of British gays between the 1930s and 1960s, when being gay was illegal in Britain.
Here are ten secret languages explained in detail, complete with links to some dictionaries or converters we could find.
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These various secret tongues are employed by a diverse range of groups, including traditional healers, professional wrestlers, citizens of specific communities, and even criminals.
But you don’t have to be paranoid to have your curiosity and imagination stirred by this exhibition’s uncannily evocative materials.Some secret languages exist in the world today, spoken and understood only by those in the know. Why have so many powerful men belonged to this secretive organization? No doubt conspiracy buffs are looking into the matter.
Barry Goldwater and George McGovern belonged so did Winston Churchill.
It may be cause for wonder, however, that many United States presidents were Masons, from George Washington and James Monroe to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. (The Odd Fellows now accept women as members.)Īlthough condemned by the Roman Catholic Church since 1738, Masonry today is generally seen as a benign social club. The quilt is also interesting because notes kept with it over the years indicate that it was created by the “grandmother of Wayne Robb (who was a Texas Ranger).” Women are not and never were allowed to be Freemasons, but lodges often relied on them to raise funds, sew regalia and help members learn rituals at home. Symbols represented within one or another of its 25 squares include the all-seeing eye, the letter G (for geometry or God, the Supreme Architect of the Universe), the square and compass, the beehive and a triangle made by the sides of three squares representing Euclid’s 47th problem. The exhibition’s most striking item is a colorful appliqué quilt made in 1885. It sweetly encapsulates the Odd Fellows’ ethos of spiritual escalation. Made in 1873 by an unidentified whittler, it has four spheres in graduated sizes rising from large to small within a pyramidal structure topped by a hand holding a heart. Humbler but poetically affecting is a “whimsy” carved evidently from a single block of wood just under a foot tall.
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