EinarCouples, what secret language do you use to tell each other details that the company you're in doesn't understand or notice?
“Paying bills” == having sex
For us, it’s “Paying bills” == “Paying bills”…
So once a month?
Uh, different bills have different due dates, yeah that’s it
Logic checks out.
Sometimes Irish.
FarraigePlaisteach"Táim ag fáil bás anseo. Cabhair mé."
Pog mo thoin! I only remember the rude stuff. Literally read a bumper sticker like one time and it never left after over 20 years.
SkybreakerMovie quotes. It’s amazing how many questioning looks we get from other people when quoting movies to each other.
Get in there, you big furry oaf; I don’t car what you smell!
Who’re you calling “Scruffy-lookin”?!
Pig Latin. Kids haven’t figured it out yet. One can spell so that went out the window.
Next stop is probably Morse code.
Susaga.- -.-- / -… -… -.-- --…-- / …- / .-- .- -. / … …- – / …-. …- -.- …–…
Ooh! Morse code with tongue clicks!
SzethFriendOfNimi.-…-. … . -. -… -. …- -… . … .-…-.
CMDR_HornVery rudimentary Japanese, or incredibly elaborate/old Englishy stylized speech
owenfromcanadaDinosaur noises, typically when we’re trying to find each other.
My dad would meow loudly when him and my mom got separated while shopping. Mom would rush over as fast as possible to shut him up.
My wife would pretend she doesn’t know me go the other direction.
Sign Language works pretty well.
We picked it up when my daughter was younger and we just kept going. Now we use it to speak to each other from across the room during loud events.
It also lets you read other sign language folks! I ease-dropped on some signing folks during lunch one day. Made me feel like a spy.
Just fyi, it’s eavesdrop.
ForestOrcaNice try. It's secret.
If we are together one of us will use the phrase “Is there Lemon in this?” And hold up our drink which is code for get me out if this conversation/situation.
If we aren’t in the same room. We pull out our phone and text Save Me. Then the other person comes and finds you to say that So and So needs them immediately. Yadda, yadda.
If you did that in front of me I would pick up on it immediately, without any prior knowledge of your code.
I swear people who use sloppy codes think the rest of us are stupid.
You can’t just yadda yadda over the good parts.
They mentioned the lemon
Track_ShovelShaka, when the walls fell
Mirab, with sails unfurled.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Darmok! And Jalad! At TANAGRA!!!
LeftHandedWaveSokath. His Eyes Uncovered!
Temba, his arms wide.
The Star Trek community on Lemmy is what got me to start watching Star Trek. I’m starting on TNG and literally just finished this episode last night. Very happy that I understood this reference.
DS9 is the best. Wait til you’re finished TNG, or actually, I don’t remember if they ran concurrently now that I think of it. But anyway, you’re in for a treat!
JojoThere was overlap with TNG, Disco, and even Voyager all running at once. But they didn’t all start or end at the same time, so
Can’t believe they are canceling Disco after 27 years.
Alright, you called my bluff.
I guess my autocorrect thinks ds9 means Disco
Funny blunder that it happened to be another star trek tho lol
It’s possible I talk about trek more than normal people.
One of us!
Trek is love. Trek is life.
Riker, his face bearded.
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Ha! Our trick is that we’re never with company. We are very boring homebodies.
This is the way.
What’s “company?”
I think in this context it just means “when around other people, generally in some group function, like a party or reunion.”
It was a sarcastic joke, like I don’t understand that other people are “company.”
Crap, I failed at Internet today. Even after I started with a joke…
Lol, no prob. I do the same occasionally.
1bluepixelMy spouse and I lived in a bunch of countries over the years. We speak Quebec French, English, and Spanish, as well as a smattering of Chinese, Bulgarian, Korean, and a few odds and ends here and there.
We basically speak whatever we think people around us won’t understand. Very colloquial Quebec French in non-French-speaking countries, Chinese around white people, Bulgarian around non-white people, or even a cryptic mix of everything when we’re not completely sure.
We figure anyone who understands is probably someone we want to know… Hasn’t happened very often, but it does happen. So far we weren’t saying anything overly embarrassing when we got caught, but we sure as hell have no filter between us because of this!
I love those videos where people are caught trying to have a private conversation by someone who speaks an unexpected language! Also it's shocking to me how many people loudly speak common dialects of Chinese and don't expect anyone to follow... literally over a billion humans can understand Mandarin, someone is listening.
Haha, I’ve caught plenty of Chinese speakers having what they presume is a private conversations in my presence. People just automatically assume non-Asians can’t speak Chinese, even when they live in China.
This happens to me sometimes as I lived in enough places that I understand a lot of common stuff in various European languages even though I don’t speak them beyond ordering a beer or whatever.
I've taught my husband to speak a bit of Japanese, but we don't use it this way because that's extremely rude.
I wouldn’t say we speak in people’s faces, but we make comments to each other about random stuff. I would never say something rude about somebody in their faces, but my spouse might go, say “Can we go back to the hotel, I really need to take a shit” or something silly and unfiltered like that.
I get it, I just still think it's rude and avoid doing so myself.
It’s rude for spouses to have a private conversation? Would whispering be better? Would it be better if they hid in a cupboard where no one could see them?
Yeah. Please go to another space if you want to have a private conversation. Speaking words not everyone present can understand is rude. This is very simple.
Yes, it’s generally considered rude to switch languages specifically to hide your conversation.
It’s because most will assume you are doing it to talk shit.