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Is “idiolect” the term you’re looking for? Everyone has an idiolect, which is the language unique to the speaker.


Sometimes, yea. But I more mean there’s an argument or debate and the two sides simply don’t have the same facts. And twenty minutes in you find out, “oh you thought I meant 22.1. I was taking about 24.0!”


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