ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Symbolic language (engineering)

Symbolic language is a way for people who make things (like engineers) to communicate instructions to one another using special symbols and letters instead of regular words. It's like a secret code that only people who understand it can read and understand what the instructions mean. This helps engineers and other professionals to create things together even if they speak different languages or come from different parts of the world. It's like playing a game where everyone agrees on the rules of how to use certain symbols and letters to mean specific things. In the end, everyone ends up with the same understanding of what needs to be built or made.