Are the translational grammar of latin based languages such that you could just add more reserved words? If we were to add for/if/etc for other languages that use our alphabet, would it be just one word each time? Would an imperfect single word be chosen over a better fitting phrase, because the nuance is not needed?
Who is this aimed at? It's relevant for OLPC-educated, but if you were contributing to Lua (Brazilian Portuguese) or Ruby (Japanese) you'd be on english mailing lists. OLPC in South Africa alone has 11 languages. Maybe we can't add reserved words and entirely portable scripts, maybe there has to be conversion, and modes/switches like english-reserveds, european-reserved, all-reserveds.
Who is this aimed at? It's relevant for OLPC-educated, but if you were contributing to Lua (Brazilian Portuguese) or Ruby (Japanese) you'd be on english mailing lists. OLPC in South Africa alone has 11 languages. Maybe we can't add reserved words and entirely portable scripts, maybe there has to be conversion, and modes/switches like english-reserveds, european-reserved, all-reserveds.