The Power of Language
that's something I used to know intuitively, back when I was young and still got to expand my vocabulary exponentially every week. Not so much now, so I have to remind myself of the power language has with little anecdotes like this one:
http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/02/19/week-245/
"El Morro has its own Dutch. Dutch, the project lingo, is never just a shorthand. It expresses things that, eventually, cannot be fully expressed in regular English. It ends up having its own grammar, and members of the team end up having to become fluent speakers of it."
via Warren Ellis
http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/02/19/week-245/
"El Morro has its own Dutch. Dutch, the project lingo, is never just a shorthand. It expresses things that, eventually, cannot be fully expressed in regular English. It ends up having its own grammar, and members of the team end up having to become fluent speakers of it."
via Warren Ellis