The Bridge Before the River — LLMs, Technical English, and the Words That Arrive First
For years, learning English meant having words and sentences arrive before their meanings did. I could recognize kernel and shell as parts of an operating system, and switch, gateway, and bridge as pieces of a network. The same words belonged to ordinary life, but that second world did not come with them. A sentence could be grammatically sound and still feel like a building whose rooms I had never entered. …