I would say “yes” and “no” are locale specific. Why not German “ja” and “nein”, French “oui” and “non” (with the advantage of being of the same, short, length),

I would say “yes” and “no” are locale specific. Why not German “ja” and “nein”, French “oui” and “non” (with the advantage of being of the same, short, length), etc? Yes, “true” and “false” are English words, but in programming circles, IMO transcend locale. (The more locale agnostic ⊤ and ⊥ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verum and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_tack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_tack), IMO are a bit elitist and difficult to type)