The shared vocabulary, defined once

House words

• the hearth — the shared vocabulary, defined once, common to every vessel who reads it.
• the heart — a vessel’s own layer of meaning, laid beside the hearth and never over it.
• a folksonomy — the umbrella a collective understanding lives under, in any sense or atom, whether or not it is mainstream language.
• a seed — a numbered paper of SQL that lands rows in the Grammar; the Grammar changes only when one lands.