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Pun.
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Aesopian language is a means of communication with the intent to convey a concealed meaning to informed members of a conspiracy or underground movement, whilst simultaneously maintaining the guise of an innocent meaning to outsiders. The terminology refers to the allegorical writings of ancient Greek fabulist Aesop.
The term Aesopian language was first used by the nineteenth-century Russian writer Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin to describe the writing technique he began using late in his career, which he compared to that of Aesop’s Fables. His purpose was to satirize the social ills of the time while evading the harsh censorship of the late Tsarist Russia, of which he was a particular target.
The Soviet-era writer Lev Loseff noted that the use of Aesopian language remained a favorite technique of writers (including himself) under Soviet censorship. Maliheh Tyrell defines the term in the Soviet context, and observes that the use of Aesopian language extended to other national literatures under Soviet rule: