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private language

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noun

  1. philosophy a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Royce Heng, owner of Duke Language School, a private language institute in Bangkok, said around 180 Chinese inquire each month about visa information and courses.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

His use of written French reaffirms that Bouabré never conceived of his art, or indeed his Bété syllabary, as a private language.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

There is a way in which Bloom was always speaking his own private language, and gradually publicizing that privacy on his own odd terms.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 16, 2019

“For me, dance-making was about that private language I was creating with my dancers, and at some point, you perform that. But with Katherine, now there was always a public quotient to my private space.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2019

They do not understand, consequendy, what so pleases the television audience listening to a movie star discuss his divorce with bogus private language.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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