#(I mean the good news is that even if I had to condence some subjects I could link to my longer breakdowns for extra detail I guess lmao)

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There's like a part of me that realizes that I've written so much Crocodad Meta that at this point I should probably just compile and condence it all into like a giant Propaganda Post

'Cause like. Sure it's all still on my blog, but few people are going to go digging through all the crap I've posted in the past few months for all the Crocodad Evidence, so just showing it all into a single post would make for like. IDK something I could use to make a compelling argument for why Crocodad could be real

(Also it would be more like, Crocodad evidence you might find on a more meta/narrative level, like on-going themes and Oda's story telling tropes/habits etc. Other people have already made posts that breakdown and analyze Marineford and compile all the subtle details+easter eggs etc so I wouldn't even go into any of that. I mean SURE I could regurgitate all that info too but it'd be easier to just link to someone else's post instead and save myself some time lol)

But also.

Do I really want to spend an obscene amount of time making that post. Do I really want to do that.

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Basil Bernstein's Restricted and Elaborated Codes

The concept of Bernstein's restricted and elaborated codes is a way of accounting for the relatively poor performance of working-class pupils on language-based subjects when they were achieving as well as their middle-class counterparts on mathematical topics. Interestingly, it was stimulated directly by his experience of teaching in further education.

It is important to note that 'restricted code' does not refer to the use of restricted vocabulary, in the equal way that 'elaborated code' does not refer to the 'flowery' use of language.

One of Bernstein's research studies involved showing a group of children a comic strip and recording theor descriptions of the events occurring in it. Some said things like

While others said things like:

Bernstein points out that the first account makes good sense if you have the comic strip in front of you, but means little to nothing without it. This is an example of restricted code. The second account can 'stand on its own' and is an example of elaborated code, as it makes perfect sense without the comic strip.

The essence of the distinction is in what the language is suited for. The restricted code works better than elaborated code for situations wherein a great deal of shared and taken-for-granted knowledge is apparent between a group of speakers. It is economical and rich, conveying a vast amount of meaning with a few words, each of which has a complex set of connotations and acts like an index, pointing the hearer to a lot more information which remains unsaid.

Not only that, but because it draws on a store of shared meanings and background knowledge, a restricted code carries a social message of inclusion, of implicitly acknowledging that the person addressed is 'one of us'. It takes one form within a family or friendship group, and another with the use of occupational jargon within a work group. Its essential feature is that it works within,,and is tuned to, a restricted community. Everyone uses restricted code communication some of the time. It would be a very peculiar and cold family with did not have its own language.

One of the most common 'padding' expressions in English is 'you know' or even 'you know what I mean'. Indeed in restricted code usage, there is an expectation that others will need to know what you are 'getting at' from a few key words.

A major failing in badly-written novels, films and TV plays is the inability to strike the fune balance between expressing the restricted code of the characters, and spelling things out to the audience who do not 'know'. Getting it wrong makes things either incomprehensible or 'wooden'.

Elaborated code spells everything out; not because it is better, but because it is necessary so that everyone can understand it. It has to elaborate because the circumstances do not allow speakers to condense ('condensed' is noted to have potentially been a better label for 'restricted code')

Restricted (or condenced) code is therefore great for shared, established and static meanings (and values) but if you want to break out to say something new, particularly something which questions the received wisdom, you are going to have to use an elaborated code. Bernstein's research argued that working-class students had access to their restricted code (s) but middle-class students had access go both restricted and elaborated codes because the middle classes were more geographically, socially and culturally mobile.

Because schools and colleges are:

concerned with the introduction of new knowledge which goes beyond existing shared meanings

relatively anonymous institutions which may not share many taken-for-granted meanings in their formal structures (although quite a lot in their informal structures within the staff and student groups)

— they need to use elaborated code. The bottom line is that if you can't handle elaborated code, you are not going to succeed in the educational system.

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Here are some more examples of restricted and dlaborated code use:

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