My completely conjectural theory is that natural language is just a shitty medium for communicating knowledge and the idioms and motifs that the LLM uses are an

My completely conjectural theory is that natural language is just a shitty medium for communicating knowledge and the idioms and motifs that the LLM uses are an emergent "code" or structured syntax that work better for communicating ideas. If you think about it, "load-bearing" is a pretty commonly used concept in pedagogical writing. You could say "most important", but it's not quite the same in meaning. English just doesn't have a better word to describe a concept that occurs this frequently. The LLM's catchphrases reveal blindspots in the English language itself.