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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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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