language and thought

Bacon’s Cipher: The Binary of Typography

Imagine a secret message hidden not in the words you read, but in the very shape of the letters themselves.…

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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in Cryptography

Could the language you speak fundamentally change how you think about codes and ciphers? This thought experiment delves into the…

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Linguistic Steganalysis: Detecting Hidden Data

While steganography is the art of hiding messages in plain sight, linguistic steganalysis is the science of finding them. This…

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Lexical Encryption in Poetry

Poetry often feels like a message in a language we don’t speak, but what if that’s the point? Lexical encryption…

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Nullity Protocols in Diplomatic Cables

In the high-stakes world of diplomatic communication, some messages are designed to be meaningless. Nullity protocols use a constant stream…

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The Phonemic Restoration Effect

Ever wonder how you can understand someone through a crackly phone line or a loud cough? The answer lies in…

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Gematria: The Hebrew Word-Number Cipher

Discover Gematria, the ancient Hebrew practice of finding hidden meaning by assigning numerical values to letters. More than a simple…

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The Vigenère Cipher: A Linguistic Key

For centuries, the Vigenère cipher was known as 'the indecipherable cipher', a testament to its clever use of a linguistic…

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The Hopi Concept of Time

Does your language dictate how you perceive time itself? The famous and controversial claim that the Hopi language has no…

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The Prosody of a Lie

It’s not just what you say, but how you say it that can betray a lie. The prosody of speech—the…

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