Review: Schott's Significa

Review of Schott’s Significa: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide for Language by Ben Schott

There are worlds within worlds hiding in plain sight. Every profession, subculture, and community has developed its own lexicon - a private language that marks insiders and bewilders outsiders; in some domains, it’s explicitly used to mark that border, while in others the jargon is simply adopted for reasons of efficiency in communication. In many cases…