dialects and specific languages

Listening to my collegues in Nature discussing the papers that get submitted to our journals is like listening to another language. People accuse geeks, like me, of speaking in an unpenetratable language, but ours is mostly about making human behaviours possible, not the internals of life.
I can point at a database table and say this represents your address and this is the relationship to your name. Certainly I'm at a loss sometimes when trying to follow along. Biochemistry is more mystifying than ruby or folksonomies.