The other side of that pancake is that your jargon makes it much harder for outsiders to interact with your system, either consuming it, or critiquing it. Both from the outside and the inside, it’s looks like a cult with their own special truths only available to the initiated.
Yes. (Connotational disclaimer: blindly reverting cultishness is also not a healthy way of living.)
Creating new words comes with a price. Sometimes paying the price is worth it, sometimes it is not. The price is cognitive (having more things to remember) and social (increasing the communicational barrier between you and people who don’t speak your jargon). In return you may get an ability to think better about some aspect of the world (but you are quite likely to hugely overestimate the benefits).
The cults waste cognitive resources of their members and separate them from the environment for no good reasons. Well, no good-for-the-members reasons; the benefits for the cult itself are obvious: providing fake value (usually in exchange for real resources), and retaining the members longer by isolating them socially.
But a lot of education is also based on this. You learn words like “vector” because it is easier than saying the full description everytime you want to do something with vectors; and there are many things you can do with vectors. Same for “noun”, “adjective” and “verb”; or “atom” and “molecule”; or many other words you learn at school.
Creating words is a powerful human tool, and it can also be used in many wrong ways, by stupidity or malice. Concepts that don’t correspond to real things. Concepts that feel like they provide a deep insight, but in fact they only unnecessarily polute the dictionary. Concepts invented for political reasons (cutting the thingspace according to a political dogma, regardless of the natural structure of the territory), or for status reasons (concept-coining is high-status). A frequent sin is creating new words for something that already has a name (because of ignorance, or status reasons).
Be aware of these biases, especially if you find yourself creating too many concepts.
Yes. (Connotational disclaimer: blindly reverting cultishness is also not a healthy way of living.)
Creating new words comes with a price. Sometimes paying the price is worth it, sometimes it is not. The price is cognitive (having more things to remember) and social (increasing the communicational barrier between you and people who don’t speak your jargon). In return you may get an ability to think better about some aspect of the world (but you are quite likely to hugely overestimate the benefits).
The cults waste cognitive resources of their members and separate them from the environment for no good reasons. Well, no good-for-the-members reasons; the benefits for the cult itself are obvious: providing fake value (usually in exchange for real resources), and retaining the members longer by isolating them socially.
But a lot of education is also based on this. You learn words like “vector” because it is easier than saying the full description everytime you want to do something with vectors; and there are many things you can do with vectors. Same for “noun”, “adjective” and “verb”; or “atom” and “molecule”; or many other words you learn at school.
Creating words is a powerful human tool, and it can also be used in many wrong ways, by stupidity or malice. Concepts that don’t correspond to real things. Concepts that feel like they provide a deep insight, but in fact they only unnecessarily polute the dictionary. Concepts invented for political reasons (cutting the thingspace according to a political dogma, regardless of the natural structure of the territory), or for status reasons (concept-coining is high-status). A frequent sin is creating new words for something that already has a name (because of ignorance, or status reasons).
Be aware of these biases, especially if you find yourself creating too many concepts.