Talk:Language game

message: Erm, why is there a "Part of a series on Philosophy of religion" sidebar here? -- Transitive Sam
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I'm not convinced that fanqie, the language game listed for Mandarin, counts as a game.  Looking at the Wikipedia entry for it, it's more of a method of spelling things out phonetically than obscuring speech.  I don't know too much about Fanqie, so if someone qualified on it can take a look, it'd help.
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What about theme based games?  For example, discussing any single given topic (e.g., sunflowers) using automotive terminology in each sentence.  How about the bad prose competition?
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Is useless language the proper term? It seems that there is a use for such "languages": to conceal conversation. -- Stephen Gilbert
I agree, if pig latin was used by the African American slaves, then it should not be called useless!
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swiped this from wikipedia "Useless language" which is now redirected to this plural-named (sorry) page(s)
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I don't think "language game" is the right place for this article, either--it is a technical term in philosophy, due to Wittgenstein. --LMS
# I agree. When I came to this article I was seeking what communication theorists and philosopher's mean by it, not funny things one can do to speech. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy has a nice little [definition]. Reagle 21:49, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

message: My phonology textbook (Kenstowicz 1994) uses the term "speech disguise" for the second sense of "language game" on this page.  I got a bunch of google results with similar uses.   We could move the stuff on Pig Latin and such to Speech disguise and reserve this page for the Wittgensteinian concept (with a pointer to the other page, of course).  --Chris 21:24, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  speech disguise? 

message: If so, this article and this category could be recategorized in accordance. Adam78 00:15, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so, language games are really more like spoken ciphers than games.  They aren't really played, they're spoken.  –Benjamin  (talk)  17:00, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Isn't [[language game]] a type of [[word game]]?

message: IMO the Classification section is somewhat weak - surely more patterns are discernible among the vast list of examples than this discussion has brought to light?  Also, I seem to recall (but cannot verify) that language games (aka secret speech) with more complex rules than any of those listed do exist.  For example, a variant of Dong, which might be called Ding Dong Dang (but I haven't heard it named), goes like this:
: English - Ding Dong Dang - Spelling out words, using plain vowel sounds and '-ing', '-ong', '-ang' alternating in strict rotation after each consonant. "Let's go" = "Ling ee tong sang, ging oh." yoyo 06:09, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Classification

message: Yardle Bardle isn't followed up by anything, it may exsist but theres no point if it has no information to give. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Biggofwi (talk • contribs) 03:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove Info 

message: I'm new at editing, and would like to add a language to the list of examples. First of all, is this allowed? If so, I can't figure out how to get my addition into the table format shown in the article. Anybody have any tips? Alphadalpha 05:43, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This may come a bit late, but it depends if it's constructive or not. Copy the section beginning with "|-" to the next "|-", replace the names and descriptions with your own and insert it on the proper place in the edit mode being constructive :-).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.186.197.159 (talk) 14:43, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Common Language Games 

message: Uvgum ..... I seem to know many speakers.
It involves splitting words into syllables and inserting "vg" before the vowel sound, so "I dislike your bicycle" becomes "IvgI dvgis lvgike yvgour bvgi cvgi cvgle"
163.1.42.6 12:47, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Uvgum

message: For consideration. Similar to (and predecessor of) the -izzle stylistic language game of AAVE. Examples: shit -> shiznit, fries -> friznies (this one from Dee Barnes). Probably most common nowadays as a way of forming minced oaths (as in first example) -- see also biznatch / biznitch, etc. Seemingly only used on one-syllable words. - 65.203.234.66 (talk) 16:36, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, but none of this can be included in the article unless you can provide a reliable source. rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 13:16, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  -izn 

message: I'd like to rename this page, 'language game' is well-sourced as a philosophical concept, and I don't see any sourcing for its use in this context - isn't there a better phrase for things like pig latin?  maybe this should be lumped as a section in code?  --Ludwigs2 19:14, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "Language game" to describe this sort of phenomenon is really the only term used in linguistics to describe it, so it wouldn't make much sense to rename this article. One could add a section for the term's use in philosophy. Auvon (talk) 17:56, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  renaming proposal 

message: As with a user above, I can't see why this article is 'part of a series on the philosophy of religion', especially as the article makes no reference to its religious relevance apart from the box in question. Can anyone enlighten us and perhaps add something about religion to the article? PamukSoundystem (talk) 16:32, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philosophy of religion 

message: There appears to be a "language" missing.  My Mom was very facile with Alfalfa Language.  I  have found some references and rules on the Internet.  I  have run across a number of people who have heard of or were familiar with and used the "language". Shouldn't that be included here?  Also shouldn't there be a listing on the Alfalfa disambiguation page? Also, since there are articles for other "languages" such as Pig Latin and Ubbi Dubbi shouldn't there be one on Alfalfa Language?  Quisizyx (talk) 23:54, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Language 

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