Why Do Mathematicians Insist On Using Words That Already Have Another Meaning?

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Why do mathematicians insist on using words that already have another
meaning? "It is the complex case that is easier to deal with." "If it
doesn't happen at a corner, but at an edge, it nonetheless happens at a
corner."

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150? -- Abba Eba
You saw a WHAT around the corner?!? -- Famous Last Word
And now, Dot's Poetry Corner.
That 's not the middle of the street, that 's the corner.
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
-- Edward Abbey...
A large coil of rope is lying in the corner.
I'm at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk....
England have just scored their second goal from a penalty corner.
This will add to their first goal....
God does not have to put His name on a label in the corner of a meadow because nobody else makes meadows.

Why Do Mathematicians Insist On Using Words That Already Have Another Meaning?

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