Which Words Come To Mind?

Which Words Come To Mind?
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Your brain literally short-circuits when "normal" suddenly means perpendicular to a tangent line, or "real" refers to numbers that aren't imaginary, or "complex" isn't complicated but has an imaginary component! Math vocabulary hijacks everyday language and leaves you floating in existential confusion like this bizarre propeller-hat-eye-balloon thing. The mathematical dictionary living rent-free in your head makes casual conversation a minefield. "Let me integrate that into my schedule" suddenly has you calculating area under curves!

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