[zelphirkalt]

I am not sure it is a good idea to mix such specific phonetic script ideas about diacritic marks with the behavior of the program over time. Even considering the shape, it does not align with the idea of first down a little, then up a lot.

[kzrdude]

To be sure, it's a joke. Mostly trying to joke at the expense of these excessively complicated variable names (that are only there because it's pseudocode) :)

And yeah, the chinese tone in practice does not align with the idea of "down a little up a lot" either. It depends on context...