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I think needing to work out what it is by asking someone or reading documentation or whatever is a feature, not a bug here.

If you instead used a word that kinda described what it is without being able to explain specifics people might make assumptions. If they have to go "what the hell is a kep" and then ask you then you can be sure they'll find out about the implementation that's slightly different from other keps, or the weird bug that happens when you do y, or the handy library for doing kep things or whatever before they waste time going down the wrong path.

Obviously this sort of thing should be done sparingly, otherwise you end up with a completely incomprehensible codebase - but for specific things are are genuinely novel I think it could help with overall grokability rather than hinder it.

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