There are conceptual domains where our linguistic style and culture around exact wording seem pretty detrimental to learning and thinking. Especially at the lower levels
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We implicitly accept the idea that if we can't put the correct name to a concept, we must not *really* know it. Anecdotally this idea is embedded in the de facto epistemology of public schools in the US, a consequence of which kinds of knowledge are testable en masse
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I think actually, though, having a low rate of putting precise names to ideas reflects a shortcoming of the domain language and culture around it, and probably only a narrow cognitive shortcoming on the part of the individual
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There are ways of expressing ideas that require fewer distinct names/words, and more wordplay. So allow and normalize original portmanteau, verbing of nouns and nouning of verbs. Allow hyphenation-derived-conceptual-units
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In my experience at least, feeling like this verbal style is kosher socially does a lot to rescue my sense of agency-in-thinking, which makes me a better thinker and contributor overall
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Importantly, expressing an idea becomes a matter of combining various parts in the correct way, rather than recalling a single name. There are usually more ways than one to express oneself sufficiently
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And the structural nature of wordplay-utterances leaves much more room for error correction through context. So no single thing you say need be exact if the whole utterance gets the gist across, perhaps with some subtle redundancy
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So in conclusion everyone should think and talk like me and if you don't you are wrong and bad and harming the children ok bye
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