Comment on Do you ever simply not understand a piece of text no matter how many times you read it despite the fact that you understand the language and individual words?

<- View Parent
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.

source
Sort:hotnewtop