Language can be expressive in ambiguous ways Having more ways a statement can be interpreted does not make it easier to identify the correct interpretation, so

Language can be expressive in ambiguous ways Having more ways a statement can be interpreted does not make it easier to identify the correct interpretation, so I don't think this is really a reason people have a harder time understanding code or mathematical notation than they do their native language. And mathematical notation offers plenty of ways to express a given statement (transform with De Morgan's law, contraposition, shuffling and negating quantifiers, etc.).