The inversion you applied to the plain english makes it into a format that is, while technically english, the sort of construct that one imagines an alien or ro

The inversion you applied to the plain english makes it into a format that is, while technically english, the sort of construct that one imagines an alien or robot might produce when trying to talk to us. If you actually spoke like that people would look at you very strangely, and this is the difficulty in understanding s-expressions that I think a lot of people have. That said, since my own programming style in C-derived languages seems over the years to slowly be attempting to imitate s-expressions, I think a lot of the mental difficulty people mention is just being overly comfortable with the familiar.