COSISM: WHAT IT CONSISTS OF AND EXAMPLES - LITERATURE - 2025

The cosismo is misuse of the word "thing" in the act of communication, both verbal and written level. An equivalent use is the one that many people give to the words “that”, “something” and “this”, to name a few words with which the same fault is incurred.

Cosismo is a practice spread throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and does not discriminate gender or social strata. More and more people accommodate it to their lexicon out of sheer laziness to learn new words. It is a problem with broad educational and social implications.

What does it consist of?

It consists in that a person, when communicating, changes the name of an object, a being or an action for the word "thing".

There are cases in which people even add the gender gramma: “I sew”. It is usual for the individual, when using this word, to point out with some part of his body the object to which he refers, to reinforce his poor speech.

Cosism is considered a vice of language. People who abuse the use of this word denote a poverty in the use of their language. Those who go to cosism neglect their linguistic memory bank and begin to lose abilities in their communicative process.

Linguistic problem

The mechanical repetition of words also responds to an act of adaptation. The more people use a word in a group, those who don't use it will feel left out; by the simple fact of being accepted they will resort to imitation, and then what is imitated becomes the common.

Although it seems extremist, cosismo also represents a threat to the language. The richness of a language is based on the number of words that make it up, on how the world is defined by means of its words; but not only that, but also in how its speakers describe their environment making comprehensive use of these words.

Loss of verbal intelligence

Verbal intelligence is associated with the number of words that a speaker can handle when communicating. The more words a subject handles, his communication is more fluid and he achieves a better development in the environment that surrounds him, since he makes himself understood.

The average teenager uses approximately 500 different words to communicate daily; your brain creates the links between each word to define your world.

After entering the university, taking it and graduating, that number of words quadruples, reaching 2,000 words in its language bank.

The resulting product of interacting with more people and new knowledge is to increase the number of words that are spoken.

There is a neurological change, the brain adjusts its connections and intelligence grows exponentially; one example of this is being able to define the phenomena that occur more easily. The more words, the better understanding of reality.

When cosism appears - and all that word that can replace an existing one by reducing the lexicon - reality changes. Vocabulary decreases as does intelligence and perception of the environment.

This decrease directly affects social development, reducing the probability of success in different life scenarios.

Examples

- "Pass me that thing." Being able to say: pass me the object, utensil.

- "I went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and I dropped that thing." Being able to say: glass, cup, jug, etc.

- "Yesterday I was with Maria and a tremendous thing happened to us." Being able to say: an event, event, incident.

- "He will know, there Pedro with his things." Being able to say: issues, questions, dramas.

- "My brother brought things to eat." Being able to say: food, inputs, or describe the food separately.

- "It was a thing like the devil." Being able to say: situation, event, circumstance.

- "Don't tell me those things, please." Being able to say: events, situations, actions.

- «She is my beautiful little thing». Being able to say: girlfriend, wife, woman.

Strategies to eradicate cosism

Acknowledge that there is a problem

First you must be aware that you have the problem. It must be remembered that not only the word "thing" is used continuously, according to the dialect the words change.

Those best suited to recognize the problem are the people around us, who are aware of the words that we usually repeat, preferably people with reading habits or with jobs related to public management, people who adequately handle the language.

Go to the name of the objects and their synonyms

Having recognized the problem, we proceed to observe in which areas the word is repeated the most and with respect to which objects, situations or people.

Having identified the name of the object that is replaced by "thing", in addition to avoiding the use of linguistic vice, synonyms of the name of the object in question are learned. A clear example would be that the chair can be called: armchair, seat or armchair.

In the case of being a person, the full name must be learned and repeated. If it is a past event, you should remember everything about that event, the events that allowed it to happen and give it its proper name. Instead of "thing", it can be circumstance, event, fact.

By doing this, the memory sectors are activated or reactivated, and little by little the communicative fluency is resumed, diminishing the use of harmful linguistic vices.

Learn new words daily

Learning new words daily is a habit that helps keep your mind alert and active. Preferably, it is recommended that it be through a dictionary and that the respective synonyms be learned, apart from the meaning.

Commonly the cosismo occupies empty spaces of the linguistic memory of the speaker. Sometimes this verbal phenomenon occurs, apart from imitation or laziness, by mere ignorance of the object that is indicated, its conceptualization and uses.

A new word a day significantly increases the neural links associated with the act of communication, avoids linguistic gaps and prevents the use of these fillers.

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