Comments on: What’s Your Tribe’s Secret Language?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:25:35 +0000

Very interest concepts writing you have here.. you have defined it in a whole new meaning of blogging.. great stuff…
I’m still new to this… nice to see different perspective of all writers… great work

By: Will Pena

Will Pena — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:14:18 +0000

Wow. How do you find out peoples language when there are so many of them?

I understand the concept though. When I worked as a minister for a particular church (in the past), they had an uncanny ability to create new words and use them repeatedly. It was where I learned to use the word “Awesome” in every sentence, or phrases like “I was really impacted by that message” (which really means constipated, but I could not tell them that).

So I will be on the lookout for the words, and make up a few of my own.

Great post.

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:40:19 +0000

Jessica, this post isn’t about Third Tribe, exactly, but Darren and I are partners in that project, along with Brian Clark and Chris Brogan.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:40:56 +0000

Is this related to The Thrid Tribe of which Darren Rowse a part?
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By: deborah

deborah — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:35:49 +0000

I had a hard time following and relating to this post. Maybe it’s just too early for me. Or maybe it’s because I don’t have a tribe.
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By: Leadstart Book Publishing

Leadstart Book Publishing — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:50:04 +0000

I loved this. “Every tribe has a lnguage”. When combined with, “language is necessary for sharing wisdom”, we get to this “Every tribe has a wealth of knowledge”. By allowing them to express themselves, we are adding a great treasure to our wisdom. Unfortunately, some tribes are on the path to extinction and we may never be able to recover those lost treasures.

By: Brett Borders

Brett Borders — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:42:09 +0000

The language is, indeed, a key to tribal identity. I had a hard time fitting in with the ‘cool kids’ at first – in part – because I used individualized, non-standardized vocabulary that didn’t fit into any of molds or patterns they were expecting.

By: Peter Beck

Peter Beck — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:49:42 +0000

I belong to my family’s tribe (the oldest definition that fits that term), a bodywork tribe (kettlebells and CST), a martial arts tribe (more like a mish mashed village), a Twilight/New Moon/fanfiction tribe, and both a medical and healthcare IT tribe.

Most of these are based in live contacts; some are entirely virtual. They all have their own lingo, for brevity if nothing else (easier to say, “C&J,” than to describe its 3 linked movements). But some probably wouldn’t exist at all without the secret tribal lingo.

Especially virtually, and especially when what defines the tribe are discussions of ideas, it really is all about building conversations out of blocks of the secret tribal vocab. The tribal lingo isn’t the tribe, but the tribe wouldn’t exist, wouldn’t be able to talk to itself, without the lingo.

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:07:29 +0000

The Mitfords & their tribe definitely cheated on the “tribe expansion” thing by marrying so many people.

@Renbaudus, excellent example!