How teens are sending secret messages in the Digital Age

Re:How teens are sending secret messages in the Digital Age by pavel_lishin on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @01:24PM (#2166575)

I don't think that posting song lyrics that your parents don't understands is quite as steganographically advanced as hiding messages under wax tablets. Not much new here.

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Re:How teens are sending secret messages in the Digital Age by PixelJ on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @07:31PM (#2168238)

Nothing new, absolutely. Sophisticated, definitely.

Ask any non-English speaker: Idiomatic speech is one of the toughest codes to crack because the meaning is "stored" in the reference, not the language. Imagine deciphering these without knowing the idiom: "That takes the cake", "A stitch in time...", "Use the force, Luke", etc.

Drawing idioms and fragments of idioms from music and video games rather than larger culture is a brilliant way to fly under the parent's radar.

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Re:How teens are sending secret messages in the Digital Age by Semiapies on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @01:59PM (#2166749)

You're too kind - there's nothing new, here.

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