Thanks for the refs. Until I digest them the following pair of anecdotes will have to suffice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan#Etymology

> 'Malays had informed him the ape could talk, but preferred not to "lest he be compelled to labour".'

For more literate sandbagging, in Oflag XVIIA (POW camps actively discourage itinerance): https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~michor/leray.pdf

> "Recteur Leray lectured mostly on calculus and topology. He had succeeded in hiding from the Germans the fact that he was a leading expert in fluid dynamics and mechanics (a mécanicien, as he liked to say). He turned, instead, to algebraic topology, a field which he deemed unlikely to spawn war-like applications."

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For a certain period (when the lifestyle was actually militarily superior) roaming worked well for steppe peoples.

I doubt there'd be much theological overlap, but do the BenOp people ever think to look at what the least english-dependent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_people already practice?

Bossmang! Mi du sensa. Milowda na sasa lang inya, keya?