alt Hacker NewsIsn't it just what you studied in depth? I am not in this area but can understand what's going on "at a high level" here. But I studied no other science formally since the age of 15 (this is possible in the UK school system). So physics and biology just go over my head unless they are sufficiently mathematical.
There is a lot of verbal commonality between the classic sciences, classic engineering disciplines, and everyday life. I suppose they all share the common substrate of working in/with mother nature all day. A molecular biologist, civil engineer, and oceanographer can mostly keep pace with each other at least for a while in discussing what they are working on. These "mother nature" systems have tons and tons of overlap, and the nomenclature generally tracks this, or is one or two steps away from it.
Computer science/engineering strays from this, binary systems don't really track nature much, and hence a lot of their own unrelateable nomenclature arises, and then there is math, which is just way far out there on it's own plane of existance.