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This may have downsides, especially with first simple words that come to mind (like in “everything is X” or “this is <adjective>”). Words turn ideas into a network of associative meanings that already exist and may fix them in stone once you get used to it. This happened to me many times so I got a habit of asking a lot of questions first rather than verbalizing ideas asap, and then using handmade verbs/adjs/nouns to describe thin differences.

As a russian classic said, feelings and emotions turned into words lose their power. Like a deep overwhelming emotion if analyzed and verbalized may turn into “I like her feet” if you didn’t use/know approriate terms or concepts before.



Right - but no risk of that here because: 1. You've already struggled with the amorphity by the time you vocalized it. So you're not missing it. 2. If you over-simplify it, you'll just not find a solution, so you know.




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