0 words and expressions that are used by small groups of people and that are not easily understood by other people: --
thieves' argot
Images must be cut, dialogue overdubbed or deleted, and explicit messages and subtle implications excised from what the argot of film criticism calls the diegesis.
In this way, jargon can be argot and can provide an ingroup with shibboleths.
But such complete secret languages are rare, because the speakers usually have some public language in common, on which the argot is largely based.
The novel is written with literary language with elements of argot and slang of drug addicts.
For instance the "archissupots" were meant to be former students in charge of teaching the local slang ("argot") to the new recruits.
Some speak a dialect or argot of their own, while others speak the prevailing dialect or language.
But the film's ham-handed reliance on period argot not only wears thin; it keeps the characters, such as they are, at a chilly distance.
Hecht, in particular, was wonderful with slang, and he peppered his films with the argot of the streets.
