How Soviet prisons spread a secret 'language of thieves' now spoken by millions 20.7%
BBC Future - By Tamlin Magee - 6/12/2026, 10:00 AM
Appeal to Authority 20.7% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 20.2% - Hasty Generalization 19.9%
The tricks of the jail jargon Fenya were once used to bewilder guards in Stalin's Gulags. Now they are being used by Russian cyber-criminals. When would you hide in a raspberry? Why don't you want to be a sixer? And what does it mean to go to the akademiya? Russian often takes slang to complex levels, such as through Mat, its linguistic... more