Thosp, you are very close to the nub of Kats original post. in that story. I am a professional scientist with a number of other attributes which we won't go into here but suffice to say that much of the communications problems between science and the "general public" arise from this problem. In science words and terminology tend to have precise and fixed meanings while the rest of the "general public" do not need such precision. let me give an example many years ago I worked with someone on a perception project and the test they were using was the point at which people perceived blue turning to green. The problem arose and the project was binned (in the oh-so PC place) quietly when it was found that there seemed to be a "racial" value for this point in that there was a significant difference betweeen the point for Europeans and Japanese for instance. My point is if I describe something as green to someone who perceives it as blue but it acquires the "Green" tag in their mind it is transmission of faulty information. Mostly in daily life, ie in art or pictures it doesn't matter much but in science such an errror could be fatal. So philosophy or science regularly gets peeved when people who use words in a different way or with there own meanings can't understand them and it is this failure of words to accuratly describe reality that causes problems, and when it comes to feelings and less easily defined things we run into major problems of communication and also people begin to imagine the description is the experience not understanding that, like in Zen, somethings are ineffable, that is can not be described in words, a sunset, what music feels like, love ,the sound of one hand clapping. Let me set you a litlle test to do with words, at a dinner at my house we came up with 8 answers
What is a mole?