NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Seems it was culture in your example. Culture may give new meanings to words. You don’t know one, you can look it up. But if you don’t know five words at once, you are lost.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Seems it was culture in your example. Culture may give new meanings to words. You don’t know one, you can look it up. But if you don’t know five words at once, you are lost.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 week ago
Yes! And if one doesn’t know different definitions are used, one won’t know to look them up.
There are also “terms of art”, which are normal words that take on new meaning within a a field. Sometimes these are multiple words that otherwise could have meaning. These appear in legal writing, but also in programming and other areas.