There is joy in using a tool that cannot do what we do not want to do because we do not have to worry about doing it accidentally.
this as an explanation for the ubiquity of jargon in specialized domains
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I'll bet language has other examples too. Perhaps: • Meme formats or image macros that ensure a post won't be interpreted straightforwardly. • Politically-correct words. • "Prowords" in radio communication.
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Sometimes people adopt slightly different ways of pronouncing their language so that different phonemes will be distinct. This would be part of a "push chain" in linguistics.
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