I mean, yes, that's sort of how linguistics works in general? You can't just look at a language with completely different orthography or semantic concepts and e

I mean, yes, that's sort of how linguistics works in general? You can't just look at a language with completely different orthography or semantic concepts and expect to be able to reliably map it onto your pre-existing language with no effort. That's sort of the whole reason translation is a generally difficult problem. I don't really get this kind of complaint in general I'm afraid. Many people can read and write, say, Hangul just fine -- and at the same time we don't expect random English speakers with no familiarity will be able to understand Korean conversations, or any syllabic writing systems in general. Programming language families/classes like logic programming are really no different. > it's English language syntax made things really easy That's just called "being familiar with English" more than any inherent property of SQL or English.