>Because using the proper English word doesn't help more than using an abbreviation if you don't know the meaning of the English word in the first place. If yo

>Because using the proper English word doesn't help more than using an abbreviation if you don't know the meaning of the English word in the first place. If you don't know the meaning of an English word, you can use a dictionary. If you don't know the meaning of some ad hoc abbreviation, unless you can waste even more human time by asking at people who already are in the secret, you are left on your own. > On a side note, I have more trouble understanding code written in French (my native language) than in English. USA soft power is strong, that's it. It's people duty to take care of better mastering their own languages if they don't want to see it ineffective in their daily linguistic needs. People know what a token is in the context of a parser, only after they learned it. When this is not the learner native language, they will learn it most likely without having a clue of how it makes sense in the semantic network of English. If a French is first introduced to this notion using the term "lexie" (which also exists in English by the way, as a borrowing from French to English in linguistic this time), chances are far greater that it will evoke something meaningful to this person, as it's lexically close to the term lexic. Using French morphemes, one could also easily produce terms like métataxeur[1], or even distaxeur and transtaxeur. >but you will be better understood if you use the English words. Chance are greater that they will see what you are referring to as they already crossed the term before more often. It doesn't necessarily imply that they will better understand what it means. When a notion is well assimilated, it's recognized in any language mastered, even when it's expressed under a bright new metaphor. [1] see https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/m%C3%A9tataxe https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/m%C3%A9tataxe and https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/-eur https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/-eur