1. Polari
Polari originated in the 19th century as a means of communication between British sailors, but became the unofficial language of British gays between the 1930s and 1960s. At the time, it was illegal to be gay in the UK. Polari allowed gays to secretly communicate with each other and recognize gays even when talking to strangers. If the stranger answered correctly, the gays knew that he belonged, if not, they still went about their business without revealing their sexual orientation.
In Polari, sex was called "trading", the word "cottage" meant looking for partners in the showers. "Wada" meant "to look at someone", the word "chrysalis" referred to someone with a pretty face, and "chicken" was any youth. The policemen were called "sharpers" or "lilies of the law" and an attractive man was called a "dish". The telephone was called the “Polari pipe”, and the word “Polari” itself meant “to speak”. Now the Polari dictionary can already be freely found on the Internet.
2. Pig Latin
Children, and sometimes adults, used pig latin, which is formed by mangling the words of the English language, to secretly communicate with each other. It first began to be used around 1869, but then this slang was called "hog latin", "goose latin" or "dog latin". Some words from Pig Latin were later included in the official English language.
transformation English words in "Pyg Latin" it depended on the letter or groups of letters with which the word began. If the word started with a vowel, "way" was added to the end, so "awesome" became "awesomeway." If a word started with a consonant followed by a vowel, the consonant was moved to the end of the word and "ay" was added, so "happy" became "appyhay". If the word started with two consonants, both consonants were moved to the end of the word and "ay" was added, so "child" became "ildchay".
3.Leet
Leet, aka Hackspeak, works by replacing individual letters in a word with a number, symbol, or group of numbers or symbols that resemble a letter. For example, "Hacker" is written "| - | @K3R" where "| - |» represents "H", "@" represents "a", and "3" is written instead of "e".
Leet was originally used by an elite group of hackers in the 1980s when it was used to send secret messages to members of the community. However, some Internet users can read it, albeit with difficulty. But computers can't read it, so spammers have started using it in mailing lists to bypass spam filters. Some Internet users use it to create passwords. Such passwords are difficult to crack with traditional brute-force hacking programs, but easy for the user to remember.
4. Buntling
Buntling is the unofficial language of Booneville, California, where it was spoken between 1880 and 1920. It is a mixture of several Indian languages, Spanish and slang words created by the locals. One of the reasons for the “closedness” of buntling is just these slang words. They were formed from the nicknames and characteristics of local residents, and now they are afraid that visitors can use them for ridicule.
For example, "Jeffer" means "fire" or "burn". The word comes from a man named Jeff Vestal who loved to start fires wherever he went. Similarly, the word "charlie", meaning "to disgrace", came from the name of a local Indian named Charlie Ball, who was famous for his awkwardness. There is also the word "shoveltooth", which means "doctor". It appeared because one of the doctors of the city had very wide teeth. The word "Tige" means "crazy" - because the famous local drunkard was very fond of singing the song "Hold That Tiger".
The word "almittey" ("burp") comes from a woman named Almittey, who was known for burping too much. "Apple-head" means "girl", but originally the word was used as a nickname for a girl of a native who had a very small head. In general, the art of speaking Buntling is called "playing the harp."
5. Carney
Professional wrestlers use carnies to talk among themselves, even if they are in front of a crowd of spectators. Carnie traces its origins back to the early days of professional wrestling, when match attendants (called "carnies") used it to communicate during public matches.
Carney, above all, is distinguished by the habit of adding the interjection "eaz" before each vowel. Thus "is" becomes "eazis" and "Kelley" becomes "Keazelleazey". But, in addition to this addition, the carnie also contains several slang words, for example, “Andre shots”, which means strikes at certain angles (the expression appeared in honor of Andre Te Giant).
The expression "Batman match" refers to empty, uninteresting matches, the phrase "beat down" is used when a wrestler is beaten by a group of wrestlers, and "canned hat" refers to the moments when the screams of the fans begin to be broadcast through the broadcast speakers.
6. Lunfardo
Prisoners in Argentina use lunfardo to secretly communicate with each other. This language first originated among the lower strata of Buenos Aires and was based on a mixture of Spanish and Italian words. Lunfardo has more than 5,000 words, one of the main tricks of this slang is changing syllables in places, for example, "cafe" will sound like "feka".
Thanks to the spread of tango, lunfardo became popular in Europe, where it was perceived as a language of power and sex. In 1943, its use in tango music was banned at the behest of moralists, who were shocked that young people spoke Lunfardo. In the 1950s, its use fell into decline, but in the 1960s, the popularity of lunfardo returned again.
7. Swordspeak
Swordspeak is an arcane jargon used by gay men in the Philippines. It appeared in connection with the unfriendly attitude of the traditional society towards gays. The slang is a mixture of English, Spanish, Japanese words, and several native Filipino vernaculars, including Tagalog, Cebuano, Waray, Bicolano, and Hiligaynon. In addition, the names of domestic and foreign politicians, celebrities, and brand names are used. The very word "sword" in slang means "gay".
Swordspeak has no fixed rules or standards, and different localities have their own dialects. Words are added and removed as needed. Some Swordspeakers also change one or two letters of their words to further confuse the uninitiated.
Wordspeak is related to the Indonesian Bahasa Binan, which adds "in" in the middle of a word and removes other letters. The word Binan itself comes from the word Banci and means a male transvestite. It removed the "ci" ending, while placing "in" between "b" and "an".
8. Tives Kant
Thieves' Cant is also called Rogue's Cant and Peddler's French. It was the language for secret communication between thieves and beggars in several English-speaking countries, including Great Britain. Now it is used quite rarely, although it is still found among gangs in the US and the UK. There are two versions of it: Simple Thieves' Cant ("simple thieves' jargon") and Advanced Thieves' Cant ("Advanced thieves' jargon").
The "simple" version has always been the most common and was used by novice criminals, citizens from the social lower classes, as well as law enforcement agents. Few knew the "advanced" language, and it was used by criminals for more high level. But even they rarely used it, and it could only be learned orally from an experienced criminal.
Examples:
In the "simple" version, the offender is called "pigeon plucker" ("pigeon baby"), and the victim is called "pigeon" ("dove"); the art of counterfeiting money is called "drawing pictures with kings".
In the "advanced language" "desert" is called "akban", "diamond" - "artel", "farm" - "narak", "food" - "safe", "hello" - "sayetonta".
9. Nushu
Nushu, which means "women's writing", is a language exclusively used by Chinese women. It appeared in the Chinese province of Hunan around 15 BC. At that time, many women were forbidden to receive education, and then they invented their own language and their own script in order to secretly communicate with each other. The language was so well kept secret that it was only discovered in the West in the 1980s.
Some words were taken from Chinese, some were invented. As in traditional Chinese writing, Nushu characters are written and read from top to bottom and from right to left. But unlike traditional writing, Nushu characters take up less space and contain more curved lines. The last complete nushu expert was Yang Huanyi, who died in 2004 at the age of 98.
Once upon a time, people invented a language to express their thoughts. It soon turned out that this was not enough, and secret languages, or cryptolects, appeared. The purpose of cryptolects is to hide the meaning of what is said from strangers. Criminals use them so that the police do not understand them, teenagers - to discuss something in front of adults, priests - to make the sacraments even more mysterious. Strictly speaking, cryptolects are not languages at all, but rather special systems of vocabulary, word formation and spelling, which are built on "real" languages, changing them beyond recognition.
Fenya
In Russia, cryptolects were used by different social groups: Zavolzhsky fullers, wool-beaters (they spoke the "Zhgon" language); Dahl described the language of St. Petersburg swindlers under the beautiful name "music" and argued that it was in it that the word "grandmothers" first appeared in a meaning that is understandable even today.
The most famous of the secret languages was the "Suzdal" language of peddlers, itinerant merchants. Under this name, he entered the "Comparative Dictionary of All Languages and Dialects" by Peter Pallas, but we know more about another name: Fenya or the Offen dialect.
Where the ofen came from in Russia, no one knows for sure. According to one version, these were Pontic Greeks who massively moved to Russia in the 15th century. It is possible that borrowings from modern Greek appeared in the fen from there. Fenya borrowed even more words from the Finno-Ugric languages; often ofeni replaced some Russian words with others, distorted them or simply invented them.
But the grammar in the hair dryer is almost Russian. Even if you don’t know that “Mas is scarce - I’ll stop the shuras from touching and kicking the shivara” means “I’m afraid that thieves won’t beat us on the way and take away the goods”, you can understand that you need to be wary of the shuras, and if they touch you, will be bad.
Lunfardo
This is the language of the lower classes of Buenos Aires, Montevideo and other cities of Argentina and Uruguay. Most likely, it came from the slang of Italian and Spanish convicts, but along the way it acquired words from English, French and, of course, gypsy languages.
One of the main sources of Lunfardo vocabulary is cocolic, the Argentine dialect of Italian emigrants. True, when borrowing, not only the sound, but also the meaning of the words often changed: Fungi (mushroom) began to denote a hat, and vento (wind) - money.
To make the language even more incomprehensible, suffixes were added to the words (-etti, -ango, -ingui, -ula - only two dozen), which do not mean anything.
This is how Snoop Dogg likes to add the suffix -izl to words. Fo' shizzle! Another favorite technique is the permutation of syllables. The Spanish calor (warmth) became lorca, mujer (woman) became jermu, and tango (tango) became gotán.
The lunfardo language is closely related to the history of the favorite dance of the Spanish bandits. The first songs in this style were written in a secret language, and the words from it became dance terms.
Polari
This word denotes several different dialects at once, which were used by fair and circus artists, street vendors, thieves, choir boys, male prostitutes. Polaris were a wild mixture of Mediterranean pidgin, gypsy languages, sailor and thieves' jargon, rhyming slang and backslang (when the word is spoken backwards).
The general lexicon of the Polari consisted of only two dozen words like “ik” (face) or “zhush” (beautify), the rest of the words differed in different versions. The dialects were so secret that a person who knew one dialect could not understand other dialects.
By the middle of the last century, the polari had almost disappeared, but immediately found a second life in pop culture. In 1973 Bigfoot Worg spoke on a Polari in Doctor Who; In the 1990s, a character called Danny Street appeared in DC comics (he also spoke Polari, and he was also a thinking street). And David Bowie in the song "Girl Loves Me" sings in a mixture of English, polari and nadsat - it's simply impossible to think of a better one.
gyaru moji
Many cryptolangs are a thing of the past, and gyaru-moji, on the contrary, appeared before our eyes. Its name comes from a distorted English girl and is associated with the Japanese subculture of the same name.
Actually, gyaru-moji is a sophisticated way of writing words using different alphabets (even Cyrillic) and symbols, something like the English leet.
The Japanese youth did the impossible: they came up with the most complex way to record the already difficult Japanese words.
The main technique of gyaru-moji is to disassemble the hieroglyph into its component parts and write them down in some tricky way. So おはよう (good morning) turns into 才（よhｏぅ - in Russian it would be something like "Δｏ6户Œ ¥丁ρ口". It is possible to make out such a ligature, but it is very difficult, especially since almost any hieroglyph on gyaru-moji is transmitted in different ways. Well, if you also use kogyarugo, gyaru slang, then only the most patient and dedicated will understand the message.
Sheng
This Kenyan cryptolang is the illegitimate child of Swahili (from which Sheng inherited grammar, syntax and part of the vocabulary) and English, with elements of Luhya, Kikuyu, Luo and Kamba (the proportions of their influence vary in different parts of the country). The name appeared the same way: S from swahili, ENG from english and H in the middle - just for beauty.
Because of this multicolored sheng vocabulary is diverse, but there are especially many words in it for such important concepts as mother (masa, mathe, mnyaka, mokoro, moda, mthama), girl (dame, mresh, supuu, msupa, manzi, shore, msusu, mroro) and "a thousand shillings (thao, gee, kapaa, ngiri, ngwanye, ndovu, kei, muti, bramba).
The history of Sheng is no different from most secret languages (adjusted for African flavor): at first it was used by street vendors and matatu drivers like Kafius "Van Damme" from the Sense8 series, but over time, Sheng was adopted by other social groups. There were musicians singing on this cryptolect, and even the name of the main African literary magazine "Kwani?" translated from Sheng as "What?". However, in general, this is a dialect of poor areas, and the Kenyan golden youth have engsh (engsh) - their own secret language, which grew out of the same roots as sheng.
How to come up with your secret language
- Borrow more roots from other languages; Hebrew and Romani are best.
- Come up with a dozen suffixes that will mean nothing: use them to make speech more difficult and incomprehensible.
- Rearrange syllables and letters. Short words can be spoken backwards.
- Use one word instead of another. If two words rhyme, swap their meanings.
- Conjure spelling: the harder it is to make out what is written, the better.
- If after all these manipulations you don’t understand yourself, you succeeded.
A secret language is a language that no one can understand... even the one who speaks it!
Kitten, specialist in secret languages
Frames from the cartoon "Kitten named Woof (fourth story)" were used in the design of the article.
It often happens that it is necessary to discuss something in the presence of children, but in such a way that they do not hear or understand anything. The option of whispering in the evening, after lights out, is discarded - everything is clear here. But what about when we are all riding in a car together, or at dinner, or in the evening, when I came home late from work, there is very little time, but there is a lot to discuss? I see two ways to solve this problem.
- Use foreign language
, which is different from the native one, which is not (yet) available to children.
We use Yiddish english.
It is really useful, but in 1-2 years time they will start to understand us. Hopefully. God bless our school teacher.
Convenient, but very temporary. Already, words like icecream, bicycle, byzday, etc. we replace in conversation with something like: “these cold white icy nice things”, “two wheels vehicle” and “that money pit day” - If the children have already mastered the foreign language described in paragraph 1 well enough and, thus, deprived it of the status of a family conspiracy, there is one more option - use self-invented, unique, colloquial communication, different from both native and from any other! We do not consider the option using a rare language (Hindi, Phoenician, Sanskrit), since there are no polyglots here. However, a very long time ago, when I was a schoolboy, I went to two classes in the language of Esperanto, the grammar of which, as it was said then, is described on one notebook sheet. But it was necessary to learn the words! “Lerno libro de Esperanto” and “Vi Yestas Nightmare Crocodile” - all that I remember in those distant 80s.
Of all the more or less “conversational conspiratorial” languages, only distorting the native comes to mind: you don’t need to learn the word, you just need to follow some kind of distorting algorithm.
Yeah, remember, who knew, but forgot? Then I said the phrase: "Let's compliment each other"
The encryption algorithm is simple - you just need to insert any consonant letter ("C" is very convenient) after the vowel and repeat this vowel again.
For example:
Ordinary Russian - "How will we celebrate our son's birthday?"
Secret Russian language - “Kasak busudesem osotmesechasat the day of the birth of a son?”
After five minutes of training, sachnoyotese bosoltasat isi posonisimasat osochoschen quickly so!
In the end, if they figure it out, you can go to a higher level. For example, conspiratorial asanglisiyskis. You can even sing songs:
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How American hobos communicated during the Great Depression, how Fenya and Murka happened, and much more.
Not always the language should be understood by others. In some cases, this is not beneficial at all.
Since ancient times, criminal communities have come up with coded symbols and their own languages. Coding information has long helped to interact with members of your circle without transmitting important information outsiders.
The secret language of American hobos.
Language hobo(translated from English - homeless) appeared during the Great Depression. At that time, thousands of people were forced to leave their homes and go in search of a better life.
Of course, the settlers, leading a vagrant lifestyle, were not happy with the inhabitants of the places where vagrants appeared. From someone one could expect a free lunch or a one-time job, and someone could heat with a shovel. 
At this time, in hobo circles, their own secret language. It consisted mainly of geometric symbols. Geometric symbols were not chosen by chance, since most hobos were not literate and could not write. Symbols were drawn with chalk, paint or scratched with a knife on the houses of ordinary residents, making it clear to every passing hobo, important information about the owners of this house.
If a circle was depicted on the wall, with arrows flying out of it, this is a danger, if there are two shovels, they can throw a job here.
A circle with a strange squiggle made it clear that there was a police station or a courthouse nearby.
The figure in the form of a cylinder said that the owners were rich people, and the cross tilted to the side - the owner of this house was a man without honor.
Two rhombus figures meant that here you should be quiet and be on the alert.
However, you will be surprised if we say that you can become famous not only when you are an artist and a politician. We present to you, which have become popular all over the world.
Polari is the secret language of the UK's sexual minorities.
According to Paul Baker, an English linguist, polari descended from an even older thief language that flourished during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
It was constantly supplemented with new words, thanks to travelers. In the 18th century, it was replenished with vocabulary, the most despised social group, and in the 19th century it was supplemented with a whole collection of words for beggars, buffoons and street vendors in Italy.
Soon, polari was used mostly by men who provided services of a sexual nature. Since their activities were punishable by death, they needed a secret language.
In the 60s, when the language first began to sound on the radio, it quickly lost its mystery, and the abolition of criminal punishment for homosexuality completely led to the fact that there was no longer a need for polari.
The da Pinci code is the secret language of British burglars.
For the first time, children's drawings drawn in chalk in Surrey were noticed in 2009. The fact is that strange signs with chalk, reminiscent of children's drawings, were drawn on some houses, which had only one thing in common - they had all been recently robbed.
The Police Department later figured out the meaning of the drawings. Sometimes they meant that the mistress of the mansion was a defenseless woman; in another case, a certain pattern made it clear that this object is an excellent choice for robbery. Also, as in the Hobo language, it was warned of danger or there was nothing to profit from in this house.
In the end, the police officers handed each resident of the county a special instruction, which reported the decoding of each sign. If the owner of the house found such a sign on his house, he immediately had to wash it off. 
The police won the battle, but the criminals are on the alert and who knows what secret designations they can come up with today?
Fenya is the secret language of Russian merchants, and later of the entire thieves' world.
It is still unknown how and when Fenya appeared. It is known that the basis of the feni was made up of words from the most different languages: Latin, Greek, Ugric, Gypsy, Yiddish and others. In addition, the fenya was supplemented by skillful word formation.
In fact, it looked like this. The buyer, who heard a casual conversation between two merchants, could not understand what in question. They speak Russian, but not a word is clear: " In shilk yuhchay stucco, vakhro and semishi"- translated into Russian means: “Take a loan of scarves, cloth and chintz«.
Russian scientist, writer and lexicographer, compiler explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language ”[Wikipedia] Vladimir Dal pointed out that Fenya is an artificially invented language by merchants in order to deceive or confuse the buyer in every possible way. For this very reason, the police were seriously interested in Fenei.
From the middle of the 19th century, it was less and less possible to hear the strange language of the ofen in the markets, and in the 20th century, it completely left the lexicon of street vendors, but became the main “thieves” language in.
“Criminal jargon began to be studied back in tsarist Russia(for example, V. Trakhtenberg, who compiled the Jargon of the Prison, St. Petersburg, 1908, was himself a top-notch swindler and sold mines in Morocco to the French government, which no one had ever seen). A number of articles and monographs saw the light in the first years of Soviet power. Later, it was considered bad manners to investigate fenya, and it was published only in the reference books of the Ministry of the Interior, purely for official use. In 1982, in Frankfurt am Main, the Posev publishing house published the Argo GULAG Dictionary, edited by B. Ben-Yakov. At the same time, the New York edition of the “Dictionary of thug jargon in the USSR” appeared. A year later, in New York, V. Kozlovsky published "Collection of Russian thieves' dictionaries" in four volumes. In the early 90s, "thieves' music" began to be printed in Russia as well"
After the collapse of the USSR and thanks to the development of the Internet, the thieves' language has firmly entered the lexicon of the working classes:
"Hit an arrow" - arrange a business meeting
“Confuse the shores” - they say when a person has crossed the border of the permissible by his actions or words
"Buhoy" - drunk
"Give on tambourines" - beat, beat
"tie up" - refuse
"Pawn" - betray, surrender someone
"Soak" - kill, beat
"notice" - notice
"Kaif" - A state of pleasure, pleasure
"Cabbage" - money
"Kent" - comrade
"begging" - to beg
"Cop" - policeman
"Ment" - policeman
"Mokruha" - murder
These and most words today can be heard from the lips of almost every Russian-speaking person. “Fenya training” happened due to the period of the 90s, when every second man in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus had a prison term, and upon leaving prison he could not switch to ordinary Russian, completely using fenya.
In addition, serials about the life and work of millionaires and ZEKs began to be shown on TV: Cops, Lethal Force, Prison Romance and others. The youth began to take prison jargon, and at the same time accept prison concepts as a set of rules right image life. But it's completely!
Language does not always have to be understood by everyone. Since ancient times, guild and criminal communities have been inventing their own secret languages. The coded dialect helped to turn deals and discreetly transmit secret information.
Hobo
The secret language of American vagrant workers originated in the early 20th century. Its heyday came during the Great Depression, which forced thousands of people to leave their homes in search of a better life. The locals were not very friendly to vagrants - this was one of the reasons for the emergence of the secret Hobo language. If a layman saw a drawn rectangle with a dot inside on the house, then he could hardly guess that this symbol was left by a hobo warning colleagues about danger. The graphic method of communication was not chosen by chance - most of the hobos were not literate. The hobo-code could advise “to get up as soon as possible” (a circle with two arrows flying out of it), report on the presence of work (two shovels), the proximity of a courthouse or police station (a circle with an intricate “squiggle”), and many other points that turned out to be useful in the difficult life of a hobo. So, a figure in the form of a cylinder (headdress) and a triangle meant that rich people lived in the house, and the “grave mound” and the cross became a symbol of a dishonorable person. Two rhombuses warned that one should be quiet here, and a circle crossed out by two crossed lines gave hope of receiving food in the form of alms.
Polari
According to the linguist Paul Baker, the secret language of the 20th century British sexual minorities was born on the basis of the thieves' slang, common in the Elizabethan era. It was constantly replenished with slang words that were brought by numerous travelers. In the 18th century, vocabulary was added used by "the most despised community groups”, and in the 19th century, the secret language of wandering buffoons, beggars and street vendors derived from Italian. In polari, you can see the influence of cockney (an old London vernacular, which is characterized by the use of rhyming substitutes), "backing slang" with its mind-blowing pronunciation of words backwards, Yiddish, slang vocabulary of sailors and military pilots, as well as drug addicts. Polari became widespread in London in the circle of chorus boys who performed in musical plays in the western part of the city. Polari was also spoken by male prostitutes, for whom the secret language was vital. Their activity was considered a crime and punishable by death. Most Polari speakers had only a minimal vocabulary and used individual words, weaving them into their usual speech. Those who mastered polari to perfection could communicate in public, discuss unsuccessful outfits nearby. standing people or openly talk about their adventures. When a Polari transmission appeared on the radio in the 1960s, the language lost its halo of mystery. The abolition of criminal prosecution for homosexuality has led to the fact that the need for a language “for the initiated” has completely disappeared.
Lunfardo
Linguists have not come to a consensus on the origin of Lunfardo. Probably, it could be based on the dialect of Spanish convicts who arrived in Argentina and Uruguay in the 17th-18th centuries. Lexicon lunfardo was supplemented with northern Italian dialects, English and French vocabulary, and gypsy words. The origin of most of the lexemes remains unknown, so scientists suggest that they were artificially invented by Lunfardo speakers. The main features of this secret language, which today is often called the language of tango, are the abundance of metaphors and the inversion of syllables. So instead of "tango" (tango) appeared "gotán", and instead of "mujer" (woman) - "jermu". Many lunfardo words have become firmly established in the terminology of tango. With the popularity of this dance around the world, lungfardo has lost its mystique.
callahuaia
This secret language is used by the Kalawayas, itinerant healers living in the Bolivian Andes. The origins of their culture date back to the Inca period, from which the secret language probably came, which, along with healing skills, is passed down from generation to generation. However, not all linguists agree: it is quite possible that Callahuaya is associated with the Amazonian dialects, the vocabulary of which the healers borrowed during their travels in search of medicinal plants. Until alternative medicine was officially recognized in Bolivia in 1984, the Kalawayas were forced to lead a semi-legal lifestyle, fearing to lose their freedom for their activities. The secret language of Callahuaya is alive in the rites and medical practice of Kalawaya today, as is the demand for the services of its carriers - virtuoso healers.
Parlache
Fenya
The language of the Russians ofen has been studied quite well at the moment. It was based on numerous borrowings from different languages (Greek, Latin, Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Gypsy, Yiddish, etc.), as well as skillful word formation. The buyer, who was present at the conversation of two cunning ofen, could hardly guess what was at stake: they say, it seems, in Russian, but not a word is clear. “Masen sleeps in condurs and I’ll send a polar-shin trader” (“I’ll run to the tavern and bring half a liter of vodka”) or “In Shilk yukhchay stucco, vakhro and semishi” (“Take scarves, cloth and chintz in debt”). Vladimir Dal pointed out that this language was artificially invented "for picaresque meetings of merchants." It is not surprising that the activities of the officers periodically caused dissatisfaction with the police: they tried repeatedly to deal with the officers, and at the same time with their “strange language”. From the middle of the 19th century, the number of ofen began to decline, and at the beginning of the 20th century it became almost impossible to hear the elaborately mysterious speech at Russian fairs.
Code da pinci
For the first time, the symbols used by British burglars were noticed in 2009. Then, in front of some houses in Surrey, ominous chalk signs appeared that looked like children's drawings. It seemed strange to the policemen that the owners of all the "marked" houses had one thing in common: they were robbed. A little later, the symbols were deciphered: in some cases, they warned about the presence of a "defenseless woman" in the mansion or designated the object as "an excellent option", in others, the degree of risk was determined or it was reported that "there is nothing to profit from in the house." All homeowners were given instructions with character decoding and were advised to wash off the identified drawings if found. However, the British police are not asleep, assuming that the disclosure of the da pinci code will force inventive criminals.
