Oatmeal Agitante

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

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

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

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

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