I often have trouble expressing my thoughts concisely for complex concepts. I know the concepts and have a model in my mind of the 'thing' I want to explain. When thinking through, i'll abstract out many things, simply referring to them as 'this' or 'that' in my mind as i try form the sequential narrative to explain them. If a spend too much time trying to think what 'this' and 'that' are, i forget where i am up to in the sequential narrative, needing to start again. I find writing it down helps, but i'll sometimes forget what i'm trying to write half way through it.

> Thoughts are multi-dimensional, whereas words have many fewer.

Another way i like to explain that, is that thoughts are concurrent, while words are sequential. I can think of multiple things at the same time, but i can only speak one word at a time.

There's a quote which i'm not sure where its from, but it something to the effect of:

> Words are power. When you can put a word to a concept, you have power over it.

The correct single word can instantly convey multiple concepts more quickly than many other multiple words can. This enables much better compression and easier conversion of multiple concepts faster and more easily, assuming the recipient of the word is familiar with it. Using multiple words requires the recipient to sequentially construct concepts, leading to the greater possibility of confusion.

I previously never cared much about using the correct words all the time, as it required a lot of effort to remember them (at least on my part). However, i'm beginning to think that the advantages of doing so would be worth the effort.