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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GuyBoy" data-source="post: 8380184" data-attributes="member: 7031143">Nice concept. This would add even more of a positive vibe to your setting. I’d support the idea. Regarding Thief’s Cant as a separate language. Go with it if you like it. My only thought is that a universal Cant, as opposed to variations on the prevalent language that allow “hidden” communication, is hard to reconcile. I come from the East End of London, and my maternal grandmother’s family were....dodgy. They were also Cockneys and spoke regularly in rhyming slang, which originated as a form of thief’s cant to confuse authority. It also served to confirm a cultural identity. Similarly, my wife is from a Roma/traveller background and there are a number of words and phrases that speak more to other Roma than they do to gorgers ( non Roma). More simply, my own username on this site is a fairly common addition of Boy to a husband’s name. In neither case, am I suggesting that either Cockneys or Roma are more likely to engage in illegal activity ( I would be attacking my own, or my wife’s heritage if I did), but that two unique variants on the base language provide interesting clues to Thief’s Cant. Your world continues to enthrall and amaze.</blockquote>