If you've ever talked about drag, camp, butches, and/or trade, you know at least some words from Polari, a secret gay language adopted by gay men in the United Kingdom between the 1920s and the 1960s.

If you’ve ever stared at your boarding pass and wondered why Los Angeles insists on being LAX or what mysterious organization ...

From casinos to taxi cabs, nearly every place of work has its own hidden jargon and lingo. Author Ben Schott joins "The Takeout" to discuss his new book that delves into these secret languages, ...

In the early 1990s, Joost Elffers, a successful Dutch book packager, met an American expatriate living in Amsterdam named Gary Goldschneider. Goldschneider was a brilliant but scattered polymath who ...

Humans and all creatures communicate in a variety of ways. We use language, we use body language, we use intonation and attitude. We use silence. We use music. A subtler way we communicate is through ...

Airplane passengers were blown away after learning that those ubiquitous “dings” on an airplane are actually a code crew members use to communicate with each other, among other things. A video ...

HUGE 4000 day old Zombies Mystery just Unearthed... literally (Call of Duty Zombies Secret Language FINALLY makes sense) With ...

What are "argots" or what some call "verbal jazz", and how is it used across the globe? Across the globe, queer communities have relied on secret lexicons known as "argots" to communicate safely, ...

Give a journalist a buzzword and you’ve fed him for a day. Give a journalist a topic to investigate and explore and you feed the entire industry for years. Even more so when the topic is a sci-fi ...