language game

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English

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Etymology

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Calque of German Sprachspiel, coined by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Noun

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language game (plural language games)

  1. (philosophy) A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings.
  2. A game that is based on players’ knowledge of a language or languages, such as fictionary, hangman. etc.
  3. A method of manipulating words so that the layman would find it hard to understand, such as pig Latin, gibberish, etc.

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