Absolutely. As a developer (in an English speaking country) I tell people my job is to translate from English into Nerd. I sometimes further qualify that as "

Absolutely. As a developer (in an English speaking country) I tell people my job is to translate from English into Nerd. I sometimes further qualify that as "translate from <business or role> into nerd". Some of this has been codified into things like Domain Driven Design, but to me is just part of being a good developer: listen and understand the business, communicate well, and solve people's problems with code if you have to.