Let Language get Messy! Analogies and Neologs (new made up-words)

Is it an analogy or is it just how learning works?

You know what's funny about a journaling practice that has become meta?

Analogies are everything. They're everything in learning and everything in growth. Schemas are nothing but analogies.

Without analogies, our learning would the absorbing of isolated facts. Instead, we group things with their likes. To utilize our different groups together (synthesis) we find associations between them, connections, or opportunities for these different groups to communicate.

It's like when one you're learning about one subject school and it reminds you of something you learned in another.

What if you just had these things sorted in camps?

What if you need a new camp? What if you made a connection that seems special and unique that you can't camp it with anything else you know? You make a new word for it.

Validity and Legitimization

Seems stupid? Maybe. But that's why we give people their own names instead of saying Tina and Joe's son. No, you're not Tina and Joes son, you're your own being called Mike.

You can't just reply on the words dead people left you. You gotta make your own. Nobody knows YOUR experience like YOU and only YOU know how unique it is so YOU have to name it.

Making up words is not even making them up.... You're just giving a name to what apparently exists within you. You're giving something abstract a shape and a category, and that's necessary for mapping yourself out. Are you supposed to shut down a feeling because it isn't already named? Are you supposed to dismiss it? Tell yourself it's nothing?

Words are tools, not templates. I can chop them up and glue them together like a Frankenstein's monster if I want to.

Grammar, spelling, and distaste for neologs to help you understand yourself is oppressive. "How dare you not standardize yourself! How dare you not make it easy! How dare you go outside of bounds!". Isn't the point of langauge to express yourself? If it's not expressive its compressive. It's saying that your truth has to be filter through a machine that others have validated in order for it to be valid... LOL

Language may be the grantor, but I am the provider or permission.

Idk why language cannot be treated as modular. We even teach prefixes and suffixes. I think that certain domains need objectivity but outside of those domains, go crazy!

The "wrong" kind of journals are actually the right ones... They're the honest ones, self made. A true reflection, not a distortion for the sake of correctness.