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How teens are sending secret messages in the Digital Age
- pavel_lishin 16y agoI 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 16y agoYou're too kind - there's nothing new, here.
- PixelJ 16y agoNothing 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.