I can't tell if you are with me on the joke or not.
(A cryptonym is a word used as a replacement for another, in an attempt to obscure meaning. I was joking that we don't use cryptonym, because there is another word for it, so we use the replacement. Either I was too obvious, and too dumb to see humor in your answer, or you missed my clumsy attempt.)
I do have to admit that I did not know the word cryptonym, but I have needed some thing like that word recently. There is always an issue when as a govt worker with a clearance uses a cryptonym for some thing that civilians want to use the declassified name for instead of the cryptonym. It should be 6 of one/half a dozen of another. But civilians never seem to pick up on the cringe from the govt workers every time they used the declassified name. Then again, I don't think people understand that some things are so secret that their declassified version is still classified, or that declassifying a name is simple (as opposed to declassifying a mission).
Anyway, I love cryptonyms! They make me feel so secret squirrel.
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Date: 2009-08-27 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-08-27 09:35 pm (UTC)(A cryptonym is a word used as a replacement for another, in an attempt to obscure meaning. I was joking that we don't use cryptonym, because there is another word for it, so we use the replacement. Either I was too obvious, and too dumb to see humor in your answer, or you missed my clumsy attempt.)
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Date: 2009-08-29 12:37 am (UTC)Anyway, I love cryptonyms! They make me feel so secret squirrel.