For 101 ways (well... more) to completely obscure the meaning of something you're conversing about, I suggest "Cockney Rhyming Slang." Don't know what that is? Here's some enlightenment. When you're all set, here's a "dictionary."
As for why anyone would want to talk this way? Sorry, I haven't got a link for that.
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Sokath his eyes uncovered!
Shaka when the walls fell.
the mole
I had read that the "actress" Billie Piper from Doctor Who received a few snickers as her name is Cockney slang for windshield wiper. I don't get Cockney.
...but how can anyone who is a bleeding-heart Firefly fan be too annoyed by odd real-world dialects.
Could've had something to do with the criminal classes in old London wanting a code language that the upper classes wouldn't understand? Just a theory. You only ever hear that on market stalls or truckers cafes these days.
The Billie Piper example shows that new slang terms arise. She got popular first, then people started saying, "It's raining. Turn your Billies on."
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