Hello beautiful human,
The world of audio equipment, like any world, has its own vocabulary: speakers, receivers, amplifiers, tuners, needles and tables and cases, horn tweeters, ribbon tweeters, woofers mid-range or sub… out beyond decibels, waves and frequencies there is a whole other field to explore.
Pharmacy is the same way. Capsules and tablets lead to bubble packing, cycle fills, dosages and milligrams and gauges. Creams, ointments, lotions, gels and drops are all different, with different purposes and ways of interacting with skin, water, oils and other bodily fluids. Sublingual, subcutaneous, coagulant, suspension, all of this before we even approach the names of the drugs themselves, which sound like the names of dinosaurs and are just as difficult to figure out how to pronounce.
Culinary arts give us stir, dice, chop, mince, saute, braise, boil, poach, simmer, glaze and deglaze, marinade, sear and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Any cookbook for beginners will include these.
I visit the world of audio equipment. I visit the world of pharmacy. I have a long familiarty with the kitchen arts but I live, swim, breathe and take shape in the worlds of language.
The words we use shape the thoughts we think.
The vocabularies we learn help us make sense of the worlds we walk through.
Whether you consider yourself a writer or not, maybe it’s not a bad idea to take a minute to identify and cherish the words, phrases, and identifiers that are specific to your field(s) and works. Don’t forget any languages, nicknames and slang from childhood neighborhoods, school and extra curriculars. What seems normal to you may seem arcane in the extreme to someone else. What kind of wizard are you?
And how can I close without wishing us a happy Father’s Day and especially to my own father, Rich Martin, himself a scholar of language and literature, who has taught me through his example we all get many lives to live with gusto, passion, curiosity and gratitude. Currently, he’s living his biggest dream as a jazz musician with the Eddie Piccard Quartet.
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