Did you know there is a mysterious language used by criminals to communicate with each other in broad daylight? It's called Thieves' cant, and it's incredible. ► / eskifymedia ► / eskifymedia ►eskify.com
In Sweden (that you apparently hate) there’s a language only used by chimney sweepers called Knoparmoj. Not many people speak it nowadays, but when I grew up in the 70’s you could still hear it occasionally. It’s impossible to understand for the average Swede, containing its own slang and borrowed words from multiple languages.
Rotwelsch, the variant of thieves' cant of the German-speaking area of Europe, has an interesting history. Rot means beggar while welsch means incomprehensible or babble. The word welsch shares its root with Welsh, Wallonia, etc. This is rather fun as some call South Tyrol (The part of Tyrol that belongs to Italy) Welschtirol. Rotwelsch also translates to Swedish and Danish as Rotvälska/Rotvælsk which merely means gibberish, being the part that doesn't understand what the beggars are saying
In Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia, this is called 'šatrovački' or 'šatra'. There is wiki page if you want to see more about it. Basically, words are formed by replacing the syllable order
Sad, I was hoping for the nerd 🤓 reference that Gary Gygax in 1978 started to use Thieves Cant as an official language for Rogues in Dungeons and Dragons.
Ah, but have you heard of the gayest language of all? Polari! No, literally, Polari became a language used among the gay community of Britain back when homosexuality was illegal.
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If I get constantly stung by mosquitoes but not by ladybirds, I will of course try to avoid or squish any mosquito nearby, because they sting and I don't like it. I won't do this to the ladybirds wo don't sting. This is to put the gypsy thing into perspective.
