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MrMind comments on Open Thread, October 7 - October 12, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MrMind 10 October 2013 09:47:44AM *  5 points [-]

Is there a sentence or a word for an English-speaker to express this concept: a thing that is supposedly a secret, but everyone knows it, but still behave as if it were a secret?
Since there's a precise term in Italian for that, I was recently wondering that I wouldn't know how to express that concisely in English.

Comment author: Khoth 10 October 2013 10:03:17AM 12 points [-]

"open secret"

Comment author: JQuinton 10 October 2013 07:33:20PM 2 points [-]

Curious... what is the term for that in Italian?

Comment author: Emile 10 October 2013 08:07:27PM 5 points [-]

"Segreto di Pulcinella" (the French, "secret de Polichinelle", is the same)

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