Ease of use makes ciphers popular. There are two general types of ciphers. Substitution ciphers require a cipher alphabet to replace plaintext with other letters or symbols. Transposition ciphers use the shuffling of letters in a word to make the word incomprehensible. Historically ciphers have been used to keep secrets pertaining to the safety and welfare of countries and/or countrymen and women.
When we think of cryptic language we are drawn to thoughts of spies, the CIA,, the NSA, and foreign espionage but has encryption existed throughout communicative and cognitive history? Can verbal and non-verbal cueing be included in the realm of cryptic language and communicative arts? Non-verbal cues like “thumbs up,” “high-five,” and “group handshakes” are of cryptic origins—if you travel the globe you will find that an acceptable non-verbal cue in one country won’t necessarily draw the same response in another. Culturally these cues can be even extremely cryptic-unique solely to the few individuals who are aware of their significance and codification-non-verbal cues are underground communications. Are these physical Memes? Are they Fourth Estate aversions attempting to avoid the body politic and the media—seeking anonymity of similar mindsets or philosophical groupings? If so, what benefit does this cryptic language serve these groups? Are new fields of encryption developing new Meme orders for rationales of thinking and will all true messages be hidden in the future? Can defined communications ever be “true” messages, or are they simply Memes that have existed throughout human development.
Graffiti, Pig Latin, Broken English, Ebonics, Internet Jargons, Communicative Art, and Euphemisms—these communicative styluses maintain common criterion apart from their extreme differences and that is all of them have cryptic preclusion. They set themselves apart through often self-imposed language variations. “Accepted” foreign languages have documented resources to learn and apply the language crossing all social barriers, but Pig Latin-for instance-utilize language encryption ensuring only those individuals with the “code” can understand the language. Pig Latin is utilized generally be early and mid teens who desire to exert some liberty over their communications, their Memial adaptations developing through original cryptology where only they can induce, comprehend, and respond to their social theorems. Typically innocent in nature-these communicative arts in the form of Pig Latin utilize source codes that may change daily so that knowledgeable parents cannot assimilate the secretive messages. Pig Latin surpassed the previous methodologies of cryptic note passing that teens of previous generations used to convey similar rites of passage of “private no one else would understand” data. This cognitive communicative artform is a reproductive Meme and viral in its application affecting certain social groups alone. It is doubtful that Pig Latin would be taking place in the multitude of countries other than the United States.
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