> "Open mouth smiley" But this is ambiguous. That could be ':D' or '=D'. As for the coding example, I cannot imagine that ending well. I mean, it's full of

> "Open mouth smiley" But this is ambiguous. That could be ':D' or '=D'. As for the coding example, I cannot imagine that ending well. I mean, it's full of little oddities that don't exist in spoken language. Even look at "filePath". You can't say filePath because while in our heads, we see it like that, the spoken is 'file path'. Paths themselves are a mess to deal with since words like 'space' and 'backslash' and other 'reserved words' couldn't be used in the actual name of the path because they would have to be used in other places. Spoken language is just way too context sensitive to work at that level. Written language is absolute, at least to a machine.