I had this reaction to sign language. Seemed like deaf people missed a good opportunity, but then I realized that how we talk and think is shaped very much by o

I had this reaction to sign language. Seemed like deaf people missed a good opportunity, but then I realized that how we talk and think is shaped very much by our language. Similarly scholars from different backgrounds have different ways of expressing a precise mathematical concept. This one paper I read implicitly treated complex scalars as real vectors, took me some time to clear up the confusion.