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This is a simple point.
Imagine you fall in love with someone who doesn’t know a language fully. You also do not know their language.
I thought of this because I was thinking of certain terms I say. I was close for a long time with a friend in the UK. We don’t talk as much anymore, but I can link back directly, idioms and terms that I just reflexively use, to her.
I used one such term, and I didn’t even realize that it was regional, because it felt comfortable to use. It drew me back to her, and away from from local community.
All lovers create their own secret language like this, particularly in the case where intimacy and deep bonding occurs.
If you don’t know someone’s language, I am curious what that contact would look like and what shape it would take. Particularly when you are both such huge language surfaces to each other.
The idea of this, that someone can be interwoven into the language you use, like veins of influence, was curious to me (if not romantic, repulsive.)
I’m writing this and also working on code with some people for the first time, in a programming language that I have drifted away from.
At once, I am contending with the challenging of way that I would do it, versus
- attempts to program idiomatically
- though my comfort might be a certain format (that pertains to certain other languages), even stylistically, I must adapt.
- there is tooling (linters) that I can use to make sure that I am following convention (this could deviate from the style learned by the other member)
- the decisions of a group, or individual who has an idea of the language
- a much more time hardened and practiced idea of how to program in this language exists in my peers.
- the degree of AI use
- segments of the code base could be AI generated
- self doubt on quality
- intrinsic to all of this, is the idea that my language use is sub-optimal, and every addition to the document is unnecessary, and worse blighted in that it takes up information space that runs at marginal/opportunity costs.