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How teens are sending secret messages in the Digital Age

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/st_thompson_secretmessages/

by alphadoggs • 15 years ago

7 3 15 years ago

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pavel_lishin• 15 years ago

I don't think that posting song lyrics that your parents don't understands is quite as steganographically advanced as hiding messages under wax tablets. Not much new here.

Semiapies• 15 years ago

You're too kind - there's nothing new, here.

PixelJ• 15 years ago

Nothing new, absolutely. Sophisticated, definitely.

Ask any non-English speaker: Idiomatic speech is one of the toughest codes to crack because the meaning is "stored" in the reference, not the language. Imagine deciphering these without knowing the idiom: "That takes the cake", "A stitch in time...", "Use the force, Luke", etc.

Drawing idioms and fragments of idioms from music and video games rather than larger culture is a brilliant way to fly under the parent's radar.

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