I suppose so. It’s just one of the many small judgement calls you make when designing a language, and definitely falls into the category of “design” more than engineering or science. At some point I decided that grave and dollar were out, while ampersand and octothorpe are in. And you can still define a dollar-sign operator if you want, it’s just not in the core language or standard library.
English is the lingua franca of programming, so it’s hard to avoid some Anglicisms (like ampersand meaning “and”, dot instead of comma for decimals, and English-language keywords) without going against strong precedents set by other languages. If I really wanted to be pedantic, I might use /\ and \/ for logical “and” and “or”—those spellings are the major reason that the backslash even exists in ASCII.
