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From hospital and police codes to Cockney slang, spoken codes can be both helpful and entertaining. Learn the history behind some of today’s most useful and popular codes, and then have fun creating a language all your own.
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Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt is an award-winning magazine writer and the author of two children's activity books. This is her first picture book. She lives in Buffalo, New York.
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Speaking Secret Codes - Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
Making and Breaking Codes: Speaking Secret Codes by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
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All Language is Code
Chapter 1: Learning about Language
Chapter 2: Spoken Codes in History
Chapter 3: Working Codes
Chapter 4: Fun With Codes
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ALL LANGUAGE IS CODE
Did you know there are about 5,000 spoken languages in the world? All spoken languages are codes. Take the English language, for example. To people who don’t understand it, it’s gibberish.
2 students talk to each other.Most languages are created to enable people to
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