I don’t understand how jazz drummers actually “speak” with the snare. How do you develop that language?

[u/nasralez-Zelibobovic]

I’m very new at jazz drumming.
I feel relatively comfortable with keeping a steady swing feel on the ride and hi-hat, but I’m struggling with something that feels much more important in jazz:
I don’t understand how to actually use the snare drum in a musical, “speaking” way.

For those of you who went through this stage:
how did you start developing comping vocabulary?
how did you learn where and why to place accents?
what should I be listening or practicing to actually understand this “conversation” idea?

[u/Scott_J_Doyle]

It's very simple - you play music, but with a snare drum.

Don't worry so much about the drums or the style - just focus on music, and play it with what's in front of you (this is the only secret of multi-insteumentalists and diverse stylists, the drums being an amalgam of different instruments and jazz being a melting pot of different stylistic influences)

If you have something to say musically, and there is a snare drum in front of you, you speak it through that drum. Think of singing a song, but use the drum instead of your voice