Thieves Cant, modern English and a revival

[Guest 85555]

You don't have to go back in history for thieves cant, modern criminals speak and write in code all the time to get around the prison system for example.

 

[grodog]

Dragon Magazine 66 had a Thieves Cant dictionary: English-->Cant and Cant-->English. Quite useful!

 

[MichaelSomething]

If you're gonna do the crime, you got to do the time... learning how to convey information to your comrades without alerting the authorities of your actions.

 

[Stormonu]

From the old man himself, Gygax wrote a whole book on the underworld, with an entire chapter on cant.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/The-Canting-Crew-Gary-Gygax/dp/1931275084/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333860245&sr=8-1"]The Canting Crew[/ame]

Also, if you watch movies like Gangs of New York, they show Cant in use during the movie.


...And then there's Planescape's chant, which is similar in many ways.