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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

"Dog-whistle politics is political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup."

Lingua Franca had an interesting example recently - http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2017/09/28/the-s...

“The man should be in a pub on the banks of the Liffey.”




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