[romwell]

Ah. On that note, I guess my point was that language was never an impediment to UI.

Sure, some things will be easier in English. In other languages, the programmers would just roll with whatever is easier to code; the users would gobble it up as long as it's usable.

Back in the 90's, I've seen pirated software "internationalized" by running the UI keywords through machine translation into Russian. Knowing English was an advantage: if you translated the UI back into English, you could figure out what some of those things did. Still, it existed.

The complexity of language wasn't an impediment, it just lowered expectations for the quality of user interfaces.