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Argot ( French and Spanish for " Slang ") is primarily slang used by various groups, including but not limited to thieves and other criminals, to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. , as the language of the dark; at one point he says: Bruce Sterling defines argot as "the deliberately hermetic language of a small knowledge Clique .... a super-specialized geek cult language that has no traction in the real world." For example: "He philosophized and recited baseball statistics in a Brooklyn argot that was fast-fading." SEE ALSO
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