The way I pronounce the word “sorry” as well as my inflection whenever I’m speaking. Only my close friends whom I speak to in private know what my voice sounds like.
There are words I’ve made up that I jokingly use around friends. An impostor would not know about this as I speak to my friends privately and I never join chat servers, where bad actors could be eavesdropping. A wrong answer or “I don’t know” would out them as an impostor.
My art. I will deliberately make “mistakes” in my art that are subtle enough to not be seen by most people, but I will be able to tell if someone is trying to copy it. Map makers do something similar.
Other random details only my friends know about that’d immediately out an impostor once asked.
Re: bullet point 2, that’s called a familect if you weren’t already aware. I just love that word and that it’s a thing, because it feels like nobody really acknowledges how widespread it is. We just all walk around having our own secret languages only our loved ones understand.
The way I pronounce the word “sorry” as well as my inflection whenever I’m speaking. Only my close friends whom I speak to in private know what my voice sounds like.
There are words I’ve made up that I jokingly use around friends. An impostor would not know about this as I speak to my friends privately and I never join chat servers, where bad actors could be eavesdropping. A wrong answer or “I don’t know” would out them as an impostor.
My art. I will deliberately make “mistakes” in my art that are subtle enough to not be seen by most people, but I will be able to tell if someone is trying to copy it. Map makers do something similar.
Other random details only my friends know about that’d immediately out an impostor once asked.
Re: bullet point 2, that’s called a familect if you weren’t already aware. I just love that word and that it’s a thing, because it feels like nobody really acknowledges how widespread it is. We just all walk around having our own secret languages only our loved ones understand.
I didn’t know about that but that was interesting to read about and now I know what it’s called, thank you! 😃