Botswana�s code-talker paradox

Different strokes: Languages are an integral part of one's identity
Different strokes: Languages are an integral part of one's identity

With every generation, youths create words that are more likely to be understood within their own subcultures, but interfere with communication in the larger group.

Based on their ethnicity, culture, country and age they tend to develop jargon that outside their peer group, is unintelligible.

This type of situation is called the Code-talker Paradox, a term coined by Mark Baker in 2011 to describe the Navajo code talking that was used during World War II (WWII).

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