Language Runs Deep in Our Species

Back before cell phones were standard, my friends and I used to write each other notes during class and exchange them in the hallways between bells. The boys thought it was great fun to intercept these hallway exchanges and read the note’s contents. To get around this annoyance and privacy violation, my friend Sarah and I made up a code by replacing each letter of the alphabet with a made-up symbol to make our notes unreadable to anyone but us — and it worked. It only took about a week for me to read Sarah’s coded letters as easily as if they were written in English. <a href="https://katrinapaulson.medium.com/language-runs-deep-in-our-species-b411b479da42">Website</a>