Love the running dinner commentary example! 🤣

Linguists often try to debunk the notion that specific words are necessesary to discuss ideas. They'll say, any language can be used to discuss any concept. Lack of specific vocabulary does not constrain our ability to think about and describe ideas and things.

But when we think about and describe things often enough, we coin useful words like influencer, asexual, and queer.

Thanks for sharing a story about how that works!