Creating your own words is part of making new things

I was shy at first about creating our own slang, thinking that newcomers might find us ridiculous. It was a mistake.

Creating your own words is part of making new things. It’s also part of building a strong culture.

English is the official language at Stockly, but we have some internal slang, that newcomers need to learn about when they arrive. We actually have internal documentation about it 😅

Some of this slang is tech concepts (eg. an abstract representation of a business reality): a 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿, a 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿, a 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁, an 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺, …

Some of this slang is the words that our market use, such as a 𝗯𝘂𝘆-𝗯𝗼𝘅, a 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲, a 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿, … a Stockler must know these classic e-commerce words to be able to have a discussion with anyone in the industry.

Some is just pure random, such as 𝗢𝗞𝗣𝗠, which stands for OK Pour Moi 🤯, introduced by Pierre Vigand and now used ~300 times a day internally. Or 𝗘𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗼, which is the pseudo of Oscąr Wąlter 🤔

In the end I think it's all part of who we are and what we are trying to build, something new and efficient. Using exclusively words that really exist seems too difficult in this context.

Anyway, I swear we are cool.