“every identifier should have been strictly nouns or verbs and nothing else” Totally agree. TBH I don’t think the authors’ enthusiasm, while admirable, is quit

“every identifier should have been strictly nouns or verbs and nothing else” Totally agree. TBH I don’t think the authors’ enthusiasm, while admirable, is quite matched by their knowledge and experience. A bit more up-front learning could probably save them disappearing down some obviously wrong paths. As you say, they should focus on verbs and nouns, and getting those to machine-translate precisely. Nailing that would be a big deal just in itself. If they later want to experiment with adding prepositions to make code read “more naturally”, make the system add those on a per-language basis according to per-language rules laid down by native-language speakers. Thus in English the method signature might present as `animate(from: source, to: target)`, because that’s what English readers expect and like. But that doesn’t mean that `from` and `to` should be translated to every other language, because that’s just an exercise in cutesy-clever nonsense, burying what is significant under what is not, and software already suffers from more than enough of that.