to monkey with its structures,
to get it to do something it wasn't supposed to do.
Play is the ghost in the machine;
it is free movement in a more rigid structure.
Play sometimes doesn't just play with structures
but in fact transforms them into something new.
For example, slang is play within the more rigid structures
of traditional, fixed language.
That's why play is surprise, creativity, and innovation
- as well as perversity, transgression, and subversion."
- Eric Zimmermann
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