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This form of obfuscation has actually already occurred over a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_rhyming_slang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coc
by userbinator 1y ago
This form of obfuscation has actually already occurred over a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_rhyming_slang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_rhyming_slang
- t-3 1y agoRhyming slang rhymes tho. The recipient can understand what's meant by de-obfuscating in-context. Random strings substituted for $proscribed_word don't work in the same way.
- waterproof 1y agoIn Cockney rhyming slang, the rhyming word (which would be easy to reverse engineer) is omitted. So if "stairs" is rhyme-paired with "apples and pears" and then people just use the word "apples" in place of "stairs". "Pears" is omitted in common use so you can't just reverse the rhyme. The example photo on Wikipedia includes the rhyming words but that's not how it would be used IRL.
- zimpenfish 1y agoSee also Polari[0] and the Grass Mud Horse Lexicon[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari [1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=6538 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=6538 (CDT links broken, use [2]) [2] https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Grass-Mud_Horse_Lexicon_old_introduction https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Grass-Mud_Horse_Lexicon_...
- qingcharles 1y agoShaka!