{"id":1472,"date":"2012-10-26T14:06:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayspirituality\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2016-10-19T08:33:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:33:06","slug":"languages-within-a-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/10\/languages-within-a-language.html","title":{"rendered":"Languages within a Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

I meet a lot of people throughout the week as a newspaper reporter. I\u2019ve concluded, although they all speak the English language, they have their own language within that language. And, if I don\u2019t try really hard to understand them, there is a communication gap.<\/p>\n

The staff on a college campus has their own language.<\/p>\n

The car repair persons have their own dialect.<\/p>\n

Scientists have their vernacular.<\/p>\n

Computer programmers have their own lingo.<\/p>\n

Religionists have their own idiom.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all rather myopic when I think about it. But it can be hilarious.<\/p>\n

My son-in-law, a computer coder at Microsoft was speaking with my computer illiterate Uncle. They were meeting for the first time.<\/p>\n

Uncle: \u201cSo, what do you do?\u201d<\/p>\n

Son-in-law: \u201cI work with Windows.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uncle: \u201cReally, do you wash or install windows?\u201d<\/p>\n

“<\/sup>And how do we hear, each one of us<\/em>, in our own native language<\/em>?”–Acts 2:8, Lexham English Bible<\/p>\n

From the Preface of 21st Century Science and Health<\/a>, <\/em>“The vital components of 21st<\/sup> Century Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures <\/em>are:<\/p>\n