I was a bit disappointed to see that this article mostly fell back on the trope of British English being extremely verbose and indirect. I think a much more int

I was a bit disappointed to see that this article mostly fell back on the trope of British English being extremely verbose and indirect. I think a much more interesting counterfactual would be, If PHP Were Anglish. "Anglish" is the name given to a kind of hobbyist-led reimagining of English that is as close as possible to modern English, but in a parallel universe where the 1066 invasion of England wasn't successful, and English didn't adopt a huge number of French words. https://wiki.anglish.info/wiki/Main_Leaf https://wiki.anglish.info/wiki/Main_Leaf Here are some English words used in computing that are derived from French, and their Anglish equivalents: Binary | Twile Clone | Betwin Command | Bid, behest Concurrent | Bytimely Computer | Reckoner, arimer (from "rime" meaning "number") Engine | Gearwork Event | Happening Multiprocessing | Manyworking Polymorphism | Manishapliness There are also quite a few words that are already Germanic with no French influence: Backup, bandwidth, bit, bookmark, boot(strap), broadband, browser, bug, cookie, download, flash, framework, inbox, keyboard, laptop, mainframe, motherboard, online, output, root, runtime, shell, software, thread, web, wireless.