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	- '''[[Yasnic\|Accessory 'Maric' Jack]]''' - The sole speaker. Jack's relationship to the language is one of involuntary intimacy: it is the tongue he reaches for under duress, even as he has adopted the Accessory's Maric-coded identity and the self-description "One Of Us." The language marks the seam between his performed belonging and his actual, Ilmari self - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.		* '''[[Yasnic\|Accessory 'Maric' Jack]]''' - The sole speaker. Jack's relationship to the language is one of involuntary intimacy: it is the tongue he reaches for under duress, even as he has adopted the Accessory's Maric-coded identity and the self-description "One Of Us." The language marks the seam between his performed belonging and his actual, Ilmari self - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.
	- '''[[Tallifer\|Accessory Tallifer]]''' - The mocker. Tallifer coins and applies the term "hooley-hooley language," positioning himself as the insider who may reduce another's speech to babble. His use of the label asserts a hierarchy of tongues in which his own is normative and Jack's is noise - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.		* '''[[Tallifer\|Accessory Tallifer]]''' - The mocker. Tallifer coins and applies the term "hooley-hooley language," positioning himself as the insider who may reduce another's speech to babble. His use of the label asserts a hierarchy of tongues in which his own is normative and Jack's is noise - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.
	- '''[[the School of Correct Speech\|School of Correct Speech]]''' - The policing body. The Inquirer's apparatus represents the state-level enforcement that turns a private mutter into a punishable transgression. Jack's lowered voice is a direct response to this threat - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.		* '''[[the School of Correct Speech\|School of Correct Speech]]''' - The policing body. The Inquirer's apparatus represents the state-level enforcement that turns a private mutter into a punishable transgression. Jack's lowered voice is a direct response to this threat - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.
	- '''[[Ollery\|Chief Accessory 'Butcher' Ollery]]''' - The incidental witness. Jack's muttering occurs at Ollery's stitching station; the language is spoken in the workplace of the group's central figure, in the physical space of the cell, rather than in any private or marginal location - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.		* '''[[Ollery\|Chief Accessory 'Butcher' Ollery]]''' - The incidental witness. Jack's muttering occurs at Ollery's stitching station; the language is spoken in the workplace of the group's central figure, in the physical space of the cell, rather than in any private or marginal location - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.

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"Hooley-hooley language" is a pejorative term of dismissal, not a name. It is the label [[Tallifer|Accessory Tallifer]] applies to the native tongue of [[Yasnic|Accessory 'Maric' Jack]], an [[Ilmari]] former priest who has joined the group of Accessory operatives and considers himself "One Of Us" - House of Open Wounds, ch 21. The phrase carries no linguistic content; it is a sound meant to flatten a living language into nonsense, to render it unworthy of its own name. Within the series' architecture of surveillance and linguistic control, such a flattening is not merely rude but politically functional: a language that has been reduced to "hooley-hooley" is a language easier to police, easier to suppress, easier to pretend does not exist.

The single recorded appearance of the term binds it to a moment of private vulnerability rather than public performance. Jack mutters in his own tongue while setting up [[Ollery|Chief Accessory 'Butcher' Ollery]]'s stitching station, his anxiety fixed on the fear that he has "done a bad thing" in connection with [[Lidlet|Trooper Lidlet]] - House of Open Wounds, ch 21. The language surfaces not as assertion or identity but as a reflex of distress, and the very act of letting it be heard in the open is framed as carrying risk: the [[the School of Correct Speech|School of Correct Speech]] Inquirer's apparatus is ever-present, and the muttering tongue is the kind of thing that draws its attention. No structure, speaker community, or genetic relationship to other tongues is specified anywhere in the available text.

What the term means, then, is a small but precise illustration of how the series treats the languages of the conquered and the displaced: not as objects of study or even of contemptible curiosity, but as sounds to be hushed. "Hooley-hooley" is what a language becomes when the only available word for it is someone else's jeer.

== The Practice ==
=== What It Is ===
Hooley-hooley language is not a language's own name for itself. It is an onomatopoeic sneer imposed from outside - the sound a monolingual [[Ilmari]] outsider makes when mimicking speech he refuses to learn or acknowledge - applied by Tallifer to Jack's native Ilmari tongue - House of Open Wounds, ch 21. Within the frame of the appearance, the "practice" is simply the act of speaking: Jack mutters the words under his breath, privately, as a self-soothing or venting reflex during a moment of fear. The language exists in these pages only as an interior sound leaking outward, and its content is never rendered for the reader.

=== Who Holds It ===
The only speaker identified is Jack himself, a former Ilmari priest and orderly who has integrated into the Accessory cell and adopted the group's self-fashioning as "One Of Us" - House of Open Wounds, ch 21. His tongue is Ilmari; his community of practice is the conquered, displaced population from which he was extracted. No other speaker, institution, or tradition of transmission is named. The language's hold is therefore described only negatively: it is what Jack reaches for when the Maric-linguistic performance of belonging falters and private fear floods back.

=== How It Is Regarded ===
Tallifer's use of the term marks the language as foreign, absurd, and beneath notice - a sound to be mocked rather than a system to be engaged - House of Open Wounds, ch 21. More consequentially, the passage frames the open utterance of the language as a specific political risk: Jack's muttering is set against the ever-present threat of the [[the School of Correct Speech|School of Correct Speech]] Inquirer and the "apparatus of linguistic regulation" that person represents - House of Open Wounds, ch 21. The language is thus doubly subordinated: mocked by peers within the cell, and policed by the state apparatus outside it. To speak it aloud is to invite either ridicule or the Correct Speech Inquirer's attention, and Jack's quiet, anxious muttering suggests he knows both consequences well.

== History ==
=== House of Open Wounds ===
In the [[House of Open Wounds]], the phrase "hooley-hooley language" appears as a dismissive label applied by [[Tallifer|Accessory Tallifer]] to the native tongue of [[Yasnic|Accessory 'Maric' Jack]], an [[Ilmari]] former priest and orderly who has recently joined the group and now considers himself "One Of Us." The term is pejorative rather than neutral: it marks the language as something odd, foreign, and beneath notice, rather than identifying it by any name its speakers might use. Jack mutters in it under his breath while setting up Accessory 'Butcher' Ollery's stitching station, and the act of speaking it aloud in the open carries the specific political risk of attracting the attention of the Correct Speech Inquirer and the apparatus of linguistic regulation that person represents - ch 21.

The single appearance of the term in this book is thus bound to a moment of vulnerability: Jack mutters in his own tongue while troubled by the fear that he has "done a bad thing" in connection with [[Lidlet|Trooper Lidlet]], and the language he reaches for in that anxiety is the one Tallifer would mock and the Correct Speech apparatus would police. No further information about the language's structure, speakers beyond Jack, or relationship to other tongues is given within these pages.

== Relationships ==
- '''[[Yasnic|Accessory 'Maric' Jack]]''' - The sole speaker. Jack's relationship to the language is one of involuntary intimacy: it is the tongue he reaches for under duress, even as he has adopted the Accessory's Maric-coded identity and the self-description "One Of Us." The language marks the seam between his performed belonging and his actual, Ilmari self - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.
- '''[[Tallifer|Accessory Tallifer]]''' - The mocker. Tallifer coins and applies the term "hooley-hooley language," positioning himself as the insider who may reduce another's speech to babble. His use of the label asserts a hierarchy of tongues in which his own is normative and Jack's is noise - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.
- '''[[the School of Correct Speech|School of Correct Speech]]''' - The policing body. The Inquirer's apparatus represents the state-level enforcement that turns a private mutter into a punishable transgression. Jack's lowered voice is a direct response to this threat - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.
- '''[[Ollery|Chief Accessory 'Butcher' Ollery]]''' - The incidental witness. Jack's muttering occurs at Ollery's stitching station; the language is spoken in the workplace of the group's central figure, in the physical space of the cell, rather than in any private or marginal location - House of Open Wounds, ch 21.

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