Groan-inducing wordplay

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Aesopian language is communications that convey an innocent meaning to outsiders but hold a concealed meaning to informed members of a conspiracy or underground movement. For instance, if Person X is known for exposing secrets in an organization, the organization leaders announce that “any members who have dirty talking habits will be dealt with” to warn Person X. It refers to the ancient Greek fabulist Aesop.

The term “Aesopian language” was first used by the nineteenth-century Russian writer Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin to describe the writing technique he began using late in his career, which he compared to Aesop’s Fables. His purpose was to satirize the social ills of the time but evade the harsh censorship of the late Tsarist Russia of which he was a particular target.

The Soviet-era writer Lev Loseff noted that the use of Aesopian language remained a favorite technique of writers (including himself) under Soviet censorship. Maliheh Tyrell defines the term in the Soviet context and observes that the use of Aesopian language extended to other national literatures under Soviet rule:

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