References & Notes

1)  For example - “freeze” is a piece of jargon that maybe many people are familiar with, but that even experts who use it have some debate as to what exactly it describes. The word “freeze” implies something rigid and immobile, but the jargon refers to loss of capacity to move and general collapse - which is initially slightly rigid, but at some point becomes floppy, disengaged sem-conscious state in which muscles refuse to act. An alternative more generally understandable and more accurate (but less widely known and less widely used) jargon is - “tonic collapse”. The amazing thing about our spciety is that there is lots if communication, but a large portion of the communication requires that everyone assumes their knowledge and interpretation matches what is being said - but often there is a mismatch - even in the realm of professional jargon - because we cannot read other people's minds. Dictionaries are one attempt to rejsolve this situation, but the more one studies any language, the more room for ambiguity becomes obvious. Which is, of course,deliberately employed in literature and poetry and hypnosis.