#nahua — Public Fediverse posts
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Sanskrit poets embedded philosophical arguments in puns that worked on two levels.
Nahua orators criticized their rulers through wordplay, one layer was politically safe, the other seditious.
A listener who caught the double meaning knew the speaker’s actual position without triggering retaliation.
The skill lay not in #humor but in plausible deniability.
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