Every specialty has its own language. There is no question this is true. But math is uniquely able to destroy people's confidence and self-image if it isn't handled well.
This particular language is spoken by every inanimate object in the universe. The point of magic, of necromancy, of astrology, of all that nonsense, is to speak directly with the universe and/or "the spirits" that are said to dominate it.
Mathematics does what all those others things try to do, but can't. Math allows you to communicate with stones, trees, stars, with EVERYTHING.
Math is the Ur-language.
When people can't do math, they lose the ability to converse with the universe. And they inchoately know that they have not got the ability. It is humiliating in a way that not knowing other sub-languages can never be
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