Setting WotD: floccinaucinihilipilification

This is ridiculous.

I didn't even try to spell it, in the title of this post. I just copy/pasted.

Floccinaucinihilipilification - supposed to mean 'the estimation of something as valueless'

Any way I try to squeeze this into an rpg setting, it's gonna sound contrived as hell.

Maybe if I just play with it a bit ...

Floss Nose In Nihilist Pillow Fiction

Or I could pull out some science-y words ....

Flox NOS inositol lipifaction

Flaxen use in helipad live cat ions .. helipaddle vacations? hell paddle vacations?

Flash use in Hell Paddle Vacations?



I have something!

So, in the first 5-10 years of alien occupation of Earth, people were struggling to communicate with other colonies of survivors. Digital communication didn't exist in Earth tech, and electronic communications were in their infancy (mainly the telegraph and radio), and were easy for the aliens to intercept. Flash Marconi's Oxter station eventually found some defense by incorporating some alien tech, but early on this wasn't an option.

Aliens would intercept and read printed and written communications, but they quickly built machines to do it for them. And humans learned that if they filled the majority of a communication with nonsense, built from real words but ignoring sense or grammar, they could tuck in actual communications toward the end, and the machines would throw it out as garbage. Famously, Louis J Kohl managed to mass print a bulletin with clues to the locations of several survivor camps across Scandinavia that was not deciphered by the aliens for 3 years. It was titled "Floss Nose in Nihilist Pillow Fiction", and inspired the moniker 'Nihilist Pillow Fiction' for the practice of coding communications in nonsense.