Ontologies are fantastic ways to standardize data definitions. They help us structure the knowledge we have in to a format that can be verified (through peer review or inferencing) and be reused. However most people do not speak english as their first (or even second) language and sharing knowledge happens mostly through language. Especially at utilities, which are often regional organizations, where domain experts do not always master the English language enough to understand a model like the IEC-CIM, it is important to make this knowledge model available to them in a language that they understand.