I'm a fan of the Ocean's films -- actually I'm pretty much a fan of caper films in general. Ocean's Twelve, however, is a movie plot-wise that really doesn't make much sense. Oh well.
Having said that, I happen to absolutely love this scene, the "Lost in Translation" scene! In the movie, I know it's a scam to put Linus off his game. But I'd love to think it was an actual method for secret communication among professional criminals. And in my game, it is.
This is Thieves' Cant in my game. It is a way of communicating secretly in public and is based on innuendo, misdirection, hidden metaphor and parable. It's less of an actual language as a means, strategy and practice for hiding secret meanings in plain speech. As such, it does require that persons involved must share a language in common in addition to Thieves' Cant to pull it off. (It does have the advantage, however, of being very much a universal form of communication.)
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