{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fare-we-europe-readouts.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fa-secret-love-language-Kf_IDYfZ","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"A Secret Love Language","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/834b5f4e-2861-4e8a-9eb5-78a66c446587/56f13dae-ac78-44cc-9a5b-df208bced285/covers-03.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/5761fc86-818c-45ee-8a2b-40b90a790cfb\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"A Secret Love Language\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Best described as a “cant”—a form of language spoken by a group and that is unintelligible to outsiders—Polari was mostly spoken by British gay men until the mid-20th century. Consisting of around 500 words, it resembles a mixture of English with Cockney rhyming slang, Italian and Yiddish. Speakers used it for secrecy, to identify each other and for camp humour.\n\nThis story is a part of our magazine—The Queer Issue."}