Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

language game

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.01 in modern English

Syllables
lan-guage game
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings.

noun

A game that is based on players’ knowledge of a language or languages, such as fictionary, hangman. etc.

noun

A method of manipulating words so that the layman would find it hard to understand, such as pig Latin, gibberish, etc.

Etymology

Calque of German Sprachspiel, coined by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Inflected Forms

language games (plural)

Synonyms

ludling

Questions

What does language game mean?
A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings.
Where does language game come from?
Calque of German Sprachspiel, coined by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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