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Quotes About Code-words

Maybe there's a better way, a gentlemen's club where we all wear ties and speak in this Brahmin language and velvet code-words, but I don't know that way, because I am middle class from California.
~ Walter Isaacson
He started every entry with I got up . It meant, I hate this school. When he wrote I do not like porridge , that was actually true, but porridge was his code-word for Simon Silverson. Simon was porridge at breakfast, potatoes at lunch, and bread at tea. All the other other he hated had code-words too. Dan Smith was cornflakes, cabbage, and butter. Theresa was milk.
~ Diana Wynne Jones