Tibiofemoral Joint

How is that 20 thousand word total going? If you’re reading this, you are school-age, right? You likely have more than 20,000 words that you can understand by now. Try this for size:

Think about when you and your friends chat with each other. You use sentences that you will only ever say once. Let’s try that again: the sentences you use with your friends today won’t reappear. Ever.

You might talk about the same things tomorrow, but you’ll say them in a different way. The words will be the same, but the order will be different. Your sentences will change.

Here’s something else to get your head around:

Everything has its own words. When teachers speak with other teachers, they have their own words. So do doctors.

So, you fell off your skateboard and hurt your knee. A doctor will say, ‘Your knee is bruised. Rest it and keep ice on it.’

If one doctor tells another doctor about your knee, they use the doctor's word for bruise. That word is contusion. And your knee isn’t a knee anymore. In doctor speak, it is the tibiofemoral joint. Or, maybe, patellofemoral joint.

You know what? You do it also. Are you a skateboarder? When you talk to your friends about it, you use words that skateboarders know. Send me some skateboarding words in the comments section.