Hello,
I was never in Scientology, nor did I have any close friends or relatives in that organization (but in other cults). However, I grew up bilingual and there are quite some almost identical words which have a different meaning in one of my two mother tongues than in the other, so I tend to mess up things there (both languages are loosely related, and from neighboring countries so they share a bit of common vocabulary, sometimes with different definitions).
Now I know Scientology is a lot about language, they have their own dictionaries, I went through a Church of Scientology glossary made for "wogs" out of curiousity and it's really not easy to find your way into Scientologese, these were several hundred words and just the beginning. Some of the stuff is just shortening words to make it easier, other stuff is special terminology which you really can't replace, as the religion with its concepts is difficult to explain without using any special vocabulary. But apart from that, there were also words which gave me an Orwell-like "1984" feeling. Weird distortions, redefinitions and stuff.
That said, I just wonder how you get along with this vocabulary, especially the suggestive and ideological parts, as these tend to get hammered in in Scientology, and how you get rid of them. Do they fade away easily, does it just take time and patience, or do you need to hammer them out again and look up redefined words in normal dictionaries and stuff? And do you end up hating dictionaries after some time in Scientology?
I was never in Scientology, nor did I have any close friends or relatives in that organization (but in other cults). However, I grew up bilingual and there are quite some almost identical words which have a different meaning in one of my two mother tongues than in the other, so I tend to mess up things there (both languages are loosely related, and from neighboring countries so they share a bit of common vocabulary, sometimes with different definitions).
Now I know Scientology is a lot about language, they have their own dictionaries, I went through a Church of Scientology glossary made for "wogs" out of curiousity and it's really not easy to find your way into Scientologese, these were several hundred words and just the beginning. Some of the stuff is just shortening words to make it easier, other stuff is special terminology which you really can't replace, as the religion with its concepts is difficult to explain without using any special vocabulary. But apart from that, there were also words which gave me an Orwell-like "1984" feeling. Weird distortions, redefinitions and stuff.
That said, I just wonder how you get along with this vocabulary, especially the suggestive and ideological parts, as these tend to get hammered in in Scientology, and how you get rid of them. Do they fade away easily, does it just take time and patience, or do you need to hammer them out again and look up redefined words in normal dictionaries and stuff? And do you end up hating dictionaries after some time in Scientology?