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At least in the mind of an experienced code "for loops" have their own semantic existence, once you've understood them and given them a label then you don't need (in fact shouldn't) rely on intuition from your knowledge of English, or whatever natural language. Only one person I work with uses their computer in Spanish, whereas that's what everyone speaks all day, informally at least. I think of these words (programming keywords, names of Unix commands, etc.) as just symbols, doesn't everyone else?

(Of course this doesn't apply to learners, I don't know about that.)

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jordigh5y ago

I feel like I have to sound out things. It's important for me to be able to say "cp that over there" and I actually pronounce it as "copy" or say "ls" as "list".

I think a lot in words and about words. When I'm writing a for loop I usually sound out the whole thing, even if just mentally, "for ecks equals one to ten do" or "for whye in the range". I don't think I'm the only one who does this, so offering pronounceable things to other people in their own language might help.

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