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  2. Cant (language) - Wikipedia

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    move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Etymology. 2 Argot. ... A cant is the jargon or language of a group, ... are mutually unintelligible.

  3. Senkyoshigo - Wikipedia

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    Senkyoshigo maintains the pronunciation, morphology, and syntax of English but utilizes lexical items from Japanese as well as slang terms formed from Japanese words, ultimately comprising a cant that is unintelligible to non-members.

  4. Agbirigba - Wikipedia

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    The addition of the t results in consonant clusters that do not occur in Ikwerre or other local languages. Some speakers pronounce Agbirigba with the resulting clusters. For speakers to break them up with vowels, the vowels are all high (one of the four vowels /i ɪ u ʊ/), and match the subsequent vowel in ATR, backness, nasality and tone.

  5. Intelligibility (communication) - Wikipedia

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    In speech communication, intelligibility is a measure of how comprehensible speech is in given conditions. Intelligibility is affected by the level (loud but not too loud) and quality of the speech signal, the type and level of background noise, reverberation (some reflections but not too many), and, for speech over communication devices, the properties of the communication system.

  6. Gyaru-moji - Wikipedia

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    Combined with character substitution, this can make the meaning of the message almost unintelligible to those not "in the know". This is analogous to the use of leet's specialized grammar. However, the flexible nature of the Japanese language means that although gyaru-moji phrases sound peculiar to someone expecting formal or even commonly ...

  7. Gibberish - Wikipedia

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    Gibberish, also known as jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense: ranging across speech sounds that are not actual words, [1] pseudowords, language games and specialized jargon that seems nonsensical to outsiders.

  8. Locked-in syndrome - Wikipedia

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    In children, the most common cause is a stroke of the ventral pons. [9]Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower portions are spared, locked-in syndrome is essentially the opposite, caused by damage to specific portions of the lower brain and brainstem, with no damage to the upper brain.

  9. Intelligibility - Wikipedia

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    move to sidebar hide. Intelligibility may refer to: Mutual intelligibility, in linguistics; Intelligibility (communication) Intelligibility (philosophy) ...