language game
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of German Sprachspiel, coined by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Noun[edit]
language game (plural language games)
- (philosophy) A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings.
- A game that is based on players’ knowledge of a language or languages, such as fictionary, hangman. etc.
- A method of manipulating words so that the layman would find it hard to understand, such as pig Latin, gibberish, etc.