[ryanschaefer]

I might offer an alternative perspective.

In my opinion it’s because of english’s evolution over time. Something that might have made perfect sense in the past becomes an antiquated way of saying the same thing in the future. It also deliberately encodes the authors belief about how language should be spoken ignoring any regional variances you see in the real world.

When you abstract away the English meaning of code into something new and unchanging, you provide stability not seen in natural language.