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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by david-given on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:30PM (#11106866)
This is a shibboleth, is it not? A code phrase used by a particular in-group to signal membership of that in-group. (Although frequently they're terms of art to mean certain specific things by that in-group.)
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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by humanrebar on Monday February 15, 2016 @09:22PM (#11107511)
It's not a shibboleth, it's a dog whistle. Shibboleths are for identifying people in one-on-one or small group situations. Aluminium vs. aluminum could be a shibboleth.

Dog whistles generally sound like platitudes to one group (family values, social justice, "let's have an honest conversation about race") and mean something entirely different to a particular demographic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

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