I am enjoying the essay, to the extent that it makes C++ and its compile times seem not so bad. But how much of the badness is really unique to the English la

I am enjoying the essay, to the extent that it makes C++ and its compile times seem not so bad. But how much of the badness is really unique to the English language, or to the modern world? My guess is that all times and places have wallowed in mushy rhetoric, and always will. If we look back at Pericles or Cicero or Jefferson and see better verbiage, that's because we are selecting for it.