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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 3599395" data-attributes="member: 24969">Well, most examples are British. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang" target="_blank">Rhyming slang</a> for example. However that's just a substitution code. This code would change as once it got too well known, it wasn't a code anymore. The same problem with any theives cant. Once it becomes common slang, it stops being a theives cant, so the theives cant has to change to stay useful. THerefore, should probably be done just as another language choice and handled 'off screen' so to speak.Another idea would be taken from espianage and things like signs and counter signs. Person A says a phrase, person B says a counter phrase, and Person A says another coutner phrase. the phrases are common enough to not be regcognised as suspicious but unusual enough that they would never occur naturally between two people. This is a way of identifying people in the same group and figuring out who is safe to talk to. Similarly, they could use secret society stuff and have handsigns and such that are only taught to the initiated. Varying levels of initiation provided various handsigns.The Yakuza in Japan apparently had hand signs and stances that designated rank. Sure, somebody could just preform them as most yakuza knew them, but once you were uncovered as a fraus, you'd get whacked.</blockquote>