[adrianhoward]

Yup. I had this sort of problem once. The code for an interactive television set-top box was written in a pseudo-assembler-ish language. It had been built and designed by French-Canadians and the assembler acronyms were based on French words.

Having pretty much zero French myself this was often non-trivial for me :-)

(Fascinating hardware though. This was pre-digital interactive television. Ran on four separate analog signals with the set-top box switching between them based on the code and what the user did. Ran on the Videotron cable network in the UK for a while before they were swallowed up into CWC. If any UK Videotron viewers remember things like "Gone to the Dogs" I worked on those :-)