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Sometimes, though my example was intentionally obscured to prevent machine translation and you were not aware of Korean conjugations (usually omitted in identifiers) ;-)

I have seen numerous instances of pseudo-English when it comes to naming. It is hard to name things in non-native tongues. When reasonable, reducing that overhead can be indeed beneficial.



Oops (yes, I don't know what it meant). I mean I speak Ukrainian and Russian. If I saw the code like that in my native tongue, I would be upset.

Plus it is pain to alt+shift between languages all the time.




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